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THE 



COUNSEL OF GOD, 



IMMUTABLE AND EVERLASTING. 



V 

BY HARRIET LIVERMORE 



d^hSk 10^ 'py iron j lorn. — isaiah xl. l. 

m Remember the former tilings of old : 
i am GOD t and there is none like me, 
Declaring the end from the beginning) 

Sayings My Counsel Shall Stand, 

And I will do all my pleasure*"— • Isaiah. 

"All the earth shall he tilled with the glory of the LORD."— Numbers. 




PHILADELPHIA: 

L. R. BAILEY, PRINTER. 

NO. 2G NOR T H F I F T II S T REE T . 
1811. 






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Entered according" to the Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by 

HARRIET LIVERMORE, 

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, 

in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 



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THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 

« In all labour there is profit/' said king Solo- 
mon in his day ; and the proverb is recorded in the 
volume of inspiration. Hoping that persons who 
may read this book, may reap some benefit in sur- 
veying my transient sketches of the stupendous 
plan of Redemption, and thereby have profit on 
my labour, I have the privilege ta announce, that 
my humble experience while engaged in writing 
the following pages, verified the maxim cited on 
this page ; for the employment led me into the 
strong tower, that ineffable Name, which by inter- 
pretation, is love ; and in that tower my soul is 
locked up forever, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, yea, 
and even my declining frame of clay, is at His 
entire command, so, that persecution, famine, or 
sword, cannot effect its dissolution, until He, the 
Original of its constituent portions, shall speak the 
word, loose the silver cord, and then my "spirit re- 
turns to God who gave it." 

1 am aware that the subject of this Book, is not 
acceptable to the present generation. I know, too, 
that my manner of defending it, is unpopular; and 
my poor name on the title page is an obstruction to 
digestive influence, even when evidence of truth 
according to the scriptures, compels the anti-Literal- 
ist to appropriate my representations as they are 
intended, entirely to the Glory of the Lord in the 
land of the living. 

As to the subject, I know it was maintained by 
the Holinesses, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, on 



IV 

the spiritual birth Day of the Christian Assembly, 
that received " the Promise of the Father," accord- 
ing as He spake by His beloved Son Jesus Christ 
our Lord ; and when Peter was converted, he 
strengthened the brethren. As to my efforts in 
testimony, sincerity is their only praise. I write 
by impression, as I set about it, and consecutive 
order is wanting (in man's view) ; for I seem to be 
compelled to write in a manner, that rather con- 
seminates, while I strictly intend but one object, 
which is, to exhibit the rejected Messiah and His 
elect ; the first to be Adored, the other to be saved, 
according to the sovereign* purpose of God, and 
His grace, which was given in Christ Jesus before 
the world began. t 

As to my name — I send forth nothing anony- 
mous. I detest it. 

If my fello\t beings are inclined to think that 
fame or subsistence are objects of importance to 
me, at this critical, perplexing, and portentous 
period of the Gentile times, so that I publish an 
unpopular subject in unpopular style, and labour 
day and night to do it, I would humbly entreat of 
them to reject such a delusion. I have suffered 
too much, by sickness, and various ills, to remain 
ignorant that tribulation in this age (the same 
world that Augustus taxed) is my portion ; and as 
to a living, I feel sure the Lord will give me 
sufficient, as He sees sufficient, and I pray to be 
content. 

But one thing I will say ; and afterward explain. 

* See 2 Tim. i. 9, 10; and let us remember that Paul and 
Peter were Jews, 
t By Cain's birth.. 



" The labourer is worthy of her hire." I have 
laboured to call upon the rulers of this land to re- 
pent and turn to the Lord. In '27, '32, '38 — I 
performed this service ; and about four months 
since my mind was impressed that I should once 
more ascend the Speaker's Stand in Congress hall, 
and warn them to flee the wrath to come. It has 
taken place ; and I hope to see that city no more ; 
for the cries of the oppressed are registered above ; 
and judgment cannot miss Washington in its march 
through the world. 

I took my MSS. to the Federal City. I hoped 
to obtain subscribers sufficient to defray the ex- 
penses of 500 copies, and after paying for it, I 
hoped to reap some profit ,* which I desired to 
send to Gibraltar, to our Consul, ivho assisted me 
in "36 and '37; and has never been paid the 
money he advanced. It is not my blame in the 
sight of God. That all-Seeing Eye whose glance 
revived poor Hagar in the wilderness, is on my 
sorrows ; and to Him 1 commend my helpless cause. 
God my Saviour will help me. 

Did I succeed at W.? Look at the end of the 
Book. I toiled to no purpose. — I fear this is alto- 
gether literally true, — preaching and exhortation 
included. 

I came to Philadelphia ; and here obtain credit, 
and receive kindness,! This ground is sacred ; for 
the Treaty of Peace and friendship, called the 
Penn treaty with the Indians, has memorialized its 



* I consider my motive sacred ; and on that account, worthy to 
be recorded within the covers of this precious Book. 

t Very few persons have refused me, on whom I have called, 
with my Washington Subscription paper. 



VI 

fame. Satan envies Philadelphia. But I believe 
that in the Millennium, there will be some good 
thing for the region once blessed by the poor Red 
men. 

HARRIET LIVERMORE. 



Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord ; awake,, as 
in the ancient days, in the generations of old* — Isaiah li_ 9. 

Thus Judah's royal prophet sang, 
Inspired by Israel's God, 
The lofty strain by faith he rang, 
And called th' Eternal Word : 
Awake, awake, O arm divine. 
Thy sovereign strength put on, 
As in the days, the ancient time, 
Thou Holy, Holy One! 

Didst thou not dry the foaming sea, 

And make the depths a way, 

For ransomed sons from Egypt free, 

In haughty Pharaoh's day? 

Did not thy mighty power still, 

The dragon's hellish roar, 

With Egypt's dead the waters fill, 

Like lead to rise no more? 

Again, awake, O powerful arm, 

To holy battle come, 

And Zion's haughty foes disarm, 

Quickly, thou Holy One! 

Then shall the Lord's redeemed return, 

To Zion with delight; 

Thy children cease to sigh and mourn, 

Will live in Jesus' sight. 



A TESTIMONY FOR THE TIMES: 

This title I was permitted to occupy in 1843, no 
one forbidding, no one approving, or even slightly 
encouraging my humble labour of love, in New 
York city where I published it — not one voluntary 
purchaser to exhibit sympathy, by name or by 
profession a Christian. I have begged its way 
through the mire of this perplexed time, and the 
printing, &c, are paid for; but many rebuffs and 
denials have met me as a chilling blast, for which, 
however, I desire to be thankful, seeing them 
rather prominent among the "all things" which are 
working together for my good. If I have shrunk 
from the " chilling blast," it has been to hide more 
secretly in the hole of the Rock where the Dove 
rests; therefore dreary poverty, sickness, and the 
winter season, fail to accomplish an object (by 
many desired), even to stop me from working to 
" revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish 
which are burnt." Sanballat ("Bramble in se- 
cret") the Horonite (Anger) may feel more indig- 
nant than ever, until he is consoled by the Ammonite 
that stands by, saying, that my testimony is too 

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weak to bear the light foot of a fox. I shall only 
continue my cries, 

" Hear, O my God." (See Neh. iv. 4, 5.) 

I have not resumed my pen, to prepare the resi- 
due of my Testimony for the Times, without an 
admonition from my blessed Saviour. The words, 
" go to thy writing to-day, were presented to my 
mind, just as the dawn began to appear; for I in- 
stantly rose, and opened a window-shutter facing 
toward the east. The command had strength in it, 
to bear me up, and it soothed my spirit; but, when 
I had taken my fourteen sheets of MSS. from the 
drawer, collected materials for writing, prayed for 
divine guidance, and was ready to take my pen, I 
had first to weep. He, who was cradled in a man- 
ger, and died upon the cross, understands my sor- 
row, and He bears with it. I do not pretend that 
I have any more ability to write truth, than worthi- 
ness of knowing it. At present I feel the force of 
those words recorded in Isaiah, sixty -fourth chap- 
ter, and apply them to myself: I confess I am as 
an " unclean thing, and all my righteousnesses are 
as filthy rags: I fade as a leaf, and my iniquities 
like the wind have taken me away." But now, 
Lord, thou art my Father, I am the clay and 
thou my potter; and I am the work of thy hands. 

Eighteen hundred and forty-three years are gone 
by, since thy infancy, Holy Saviour, plead for the 
state of my baby soul, that quivers at the sound of 
1844, after all my declarations that I expect to die 
by violence in the days of Anti-Christ. 1844 (as 



Rome has reckoned for us) is indeed begun; and I 
resume my pen on the fourteenth of the month 
called January. I asked a Mussulman* at Jerusa- 
lem in 1841, to tell me the year of the Hegira. 
1256, he replied. I conclude that 1257 commenced 
in August, 1841; and that the present year must 
be the end of the Turk at Jerusalem. In these 
strange days when boiling water is preferred to 
canvass, and steam to wind, that man may have 
his own will on the deep, as man tries to believe, 
I suppose the vacation of government at the holy 
mountain must be short. Who is to succeed the 
Turk? We must reckon now according to the ac- 
tual state of Jerusalem at this period; and first, 
Russia has her representative in the Greek church: 
Second, Rome has her representative in the Latin 
church: Third, England has her representative in 
the Protestant church. 

Now the question arises, is the close of the 
Turk's day at Jerusalem, the end of the times of 
the Gentiles, or not. If it is, then the terms Greek, 
Latin, or Protestant church, are obsolete, and the 
national influence comes into view. 

I must now speak for Christianity. Respect for 
the name leads a conclusion that when the Moslem 
crescent is taken down, and banished from the holy 
mountain, then " the times of the Gentiles are ful- 
filled." 



* Travelling drogoman, then employed by Major Hervey, R. A., 
stationed by H. B. M. at the holy city in 1841. 



Jerusalem is then left without a chief magistrate. 
A predicament indeed! Who dares to command? 
Not one. But then Jerusalem at such a crisis is 
almost (nominally) a Christian city; and shall 
Christianity be associated with gentilism ? no ! 
no ! no ! The Divine Author of Christianity was a 
Jew — " made under the law, to redeem them that 
were under the law." The Law was given to the 
twelve tribes of the children of Israel ; and to them 
(in the law) was Christ promised; and Jerusalem is 
the seat of His rule over them. Jerusalem is the 
city of the Great King. Now the question arises, 
who is this " Great King?" It is answered directly 
by Malachi: "The Lord of Hosts," i. 14; and by 
the psalmist, " the Lord is a great God, and a great 
King above all gods," xcv. 3; and that Jerusalem 
is his city, is declared in the second verse of the 
48th Psalm, to which the blessed Jesus set his seal 
(that this is truth) in the sermon on the mount. 
See Matthew v. 35. ^ 

The point is settled and fully declared in the 
Word of God, that Jerusalem is the city of his joy, 
and that her king is the King of Israel; that He is 
the Prince of the kings of the earth, King of kings 
and Lord of lords. Has the reality ever been pre- 
sented to the view of angels and men? Never, 
except by retrospective faith we glance on the typi- 
cal dominion of Melchisedec. The reign of David 
was full of conflict — the reign of Solomon replete 
with human grandeur — but in neither is visible the 
dominion of holiness. David, as the founder of 



5 

Zion, is a type of the great King, who shall estab- 
lish her in righteousness. The reign of Solomon, 
as protected from invasion, and flourishing in pros- 
perity, is typical of the Millennium ; but neither or 
both, ever exhibited the sublimity of Jehovah's joy, 
which is effectively, Redemption from the primal 
curse, or judgment pronounced for the primal trans- 
gression of man. When that redemption is fully 
illustrated, then Jerusalem becomes in full reality, 
the city of Jehovah's joy. Then the presence of 
her King, is the glory of the Holy Ghost, clothed 
with manhood, in entire fellowship, possession, and 
fruition of the power of God. Never can Jerusa- 
lem answer to her name, "the Vision of Peace," 
until the feet of the Lord God shall walk upon her 
soil, as Maker, Restorer, and Sovereign of her origi- 
nally elect children, of which holy stock David the 
son of Jesse, is the father of that humanity, which 
is pure from David's frailty, by alliance with the 
sacred and infinite mystery of God, the Resurrec- 
rection, and the Life. 

Our Lord and Saviour Jesus is that character; 
and his mission to the earth, which is his footstool, 
is not to be considered void of praise to his origi- 
nal title, Jerusalem's Great King, because he did 
not then take to himself his God-power, and hasten 
his judgment upon the Gentiles, Neither is His 
mission in humility, to be considered void of good 
for Jerusalem, His city. No student of prophecy, 
that believes in the testimony of the heavenly 
herald, that proclaimed, "Glory to God in the 



highest, when the Virgin brought forth Emanuel, 
will ever concede this point to Jew or Greek. It 
is too apparent to the single eye, ever to be doubt- 
ed, that the Paradise of God must have a ruler 
who is not only righteous, but righteousness; for 
otherwise God could not pronounce it very good. 
Paradise was married to God in the dedication of 
the temple that was called by His Name, and she 
became a harlot. Could the Holy Jesus accept of 
such a polluted throne? No. The throne must be 
redeemed by an effectual sin offering, an offering 
in, and of, and for holiness to the Lord. There- 
fore, He drank the bitter cup, whose very dregs 
were Jerusalem's sins; and this act constituted the 
King of Jerusalem her actual redeemer, so that he 
has an undeniable right to do with her as he 
pleases; and it was necessary for the heavens to 
receive his person, that all holy intelligences might 
behold the very King of Jerusalem on the right hand 
of God, and glorified with the Father, and by the 
Father, with the glory he had before ever the world 
was. Is that exaltation His joy ? I answer nay ; for it 
is written that Jerusalem is the city of His joy, there- 
fore the object of His personal exaltation on the 
right hand of God is, the joy of Christ Jesus; and 
this object is pronounced by the Holy Ghost to be 
the Father's ordination of his beloved Son, to heal 
the breach of Zion in giving repentance to Israel, 
and remission of their sins. The present glory of our 
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, is the joy of his 
Spirit in connexion with the restoration of Jerusa- 



lem, which involves the complete restitution to 
God of all the things he hath spoken for, by the 
mouth of all his holy prophets since the world 
began. * I repeat it, that the restoration of Je- 
rusalem involves the restitution to God, &c. I 
need not to refer at once to the transgression of 
desolation for which the God of Israel delivered 
his heritage to the heathen for a certain term of 
time. The best use I can make of that part of 
Jerusalem's unhappy history, is that her cleansing 
is decreed by the Lord God, to take place at the 
end of the days spoken of to the prophet Daniel, 
by the Wonderful Numberer whom Daniel saw in 
his vision of the ram, he-goat, and the little horn, 
on the banks of the river of Ulai. I confidently 
believe, that the expiration of those days shall con- 
clude the misery of Zion, and she will then be 
cleansed "by the spirit of judgment, and by the 
spirit of burning;" but the root of gall and worm- 
wood that will be destroyed in this cleansing, was 

* I beg- not to be understood that the restoration of Jerusalem 
is by itself oui Saviour's divine joy. It is not to be disputed that 
Jerusalem is the city of his joy, for upon that mountain he will 
bruise the serpent's head, which is the Anti-Christ; and upon that 
mountain he will exhibit a reign of righteousness to which the 
first Adam was called but not chosen, for he failed by disobedi- 
ence. The second Adam was obedient even unto death, and the 
latter he endured for the sake of the joy set before him, even to 
present to his Father a new creation more glorious than the first, 
because founded in himself, the quickening Spirit. And he chooses 
Jerusalem again, because the name of the Father was there 
recorded in the be^innin^. 



8 

not original in the wicked king who set a graven 
image in the holy and beautiful house of the Lord, 
where He said he would put His Name forever. 
No ! that root, that fatal Root, was originated by 
the subtile serpent in the heart of our first mother, 
whom he beguiled from the simplicity of Christ, 
and prevailed (by her) to finish his diabolical work 
in the man who was our Lord's representative in 
Eden, the garden of God. This root cannot be 
destroyed by any human intelligence under the sun. 
Its author is a spirit, a foul spirit, high in know- 
ledge, mighty in power; his disadvantage is, that 
he is a created being. The serpent as a serpent, is 
denominated in Holy Writ, animal [our translation, 
beast]; and this assumption is what he knows of 
his beginning; and he knows too, that his beastly 
manifestation can be overcome only by the Holy 
One; and this is the Son of God, who is called the 
Lord God, and pronounced the betrayer of inno- 
cent humanity, cursed above all cattle. The subtile 
enemy understood the words, "I will put enmity 
between thee and the woman, &c," and he knew 
that his injured Maker would execute vengeance 
upon him, by a manifestation of the God Head, that 
will result in the destruction of death, hell, and the 
devil, which is the Accuser of God and of his Christ, 
until the time of Jerusalem's release shall come; 
but this knowledge the devil never imparts to the 
animal, not even to his literal head, the man of sin, 
for this would defeat his purpose at once. In that 
case the words "strong delusion" would lose their 



effect, for in their meaning is the terror, and the 
honest Literalist trembles at the sound, for it is the 
voice of the Word, and his inquiry is, "Who shall 
be able to stand? The great Apostle to the Gen- 
tiles testifies that God shall send a strong delusion," 
and its effects are more distinct at Jerusalem, be- 
cause of the first transgression which she retains in 
her rejection of the plan of God in Redemption. So 
that there being no more sacrifice for sin, she must 
endure the wrath of the Lamb, and her burning in 
that day is supernatural, being kindled by the 
fierce anger of her jealous God, whose breath as 
an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of 
the neck, and the people shall be as the burnings 
of lime, as thorns cut up they shall be burned in 
the fire. 

But it may be asked, if Jerusalem at her release 
from the Turkish yoke is almost nominally a Chris- 
tian city, how can her state become so very despe- 
rate? I can answer this question to the satisfaction 
of the simple and honest Literalist, who adores the 
Name of the immortal Jew who is the heir to Zion, 
and by sovereign decree of God shall take posses- 
sion as conqueror, (not of Jerusalem,) but of death 
and hell. 

My answer is this, look to it and see if the Word 
of God is my guide: 

"0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the 
prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee : 
how often would I have gathered thy children to- 
gether as a hen doth gather her brood under her 
wings, and ye would not ! 



10 



"Behold, your house is left unto you desolate; 
And verily I say unto you, ye shall not see me, 
until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is 
he that cometh in the name of the Lord." 

Thus spake the Saviour of Israel; and shall his 
words fall to the ground, or pass away? No! 
They are so far fulfilled, and stand fast to be 
accomplished. The Lord will hasten it in his 
time. 

Whenever Jerusalem is released from the Turk, 
by his decease at Constantinople, the site of the 
Temple must inevitably be re-possessed by her own 
originally elect children, or else become the pro- 
perty of Christians. Should the Almighty suffer 
this to take place, I ask what would be the fate of 
the Jews? They have but one friend among the 
four prominent sects in their holy city, and this is 
the Protestant church of England. It is not diffi- 
cult to substantiate an opinion that England (an 
isle of the Gentiles), will wait for the law of Christ, 
for so it is written. Isaiah xlii. 4, li. 5. But the 
scriptures do not represent any human delegation 
of power that will be the means of reinstating the 
Jews in the holy city. The scriptures do not afford 
one hint that nominal Christian nations will agree 
that the Jews shall repossess the site of their sacred 
temple. It is a lazy thought floating upon the sur- 
face of a very unhealthy theory, that proposes this 
plan beforehand, and there is no fac simile of it in 
the lively Oracles of truth. 

The fact is this: the Jews must have the pre- 



11 

eminence at Jerusalem when the Moslem service 
is ended ; but a time of trouble is allotted for them 
such as never was, and never will be again. I 
have asserted that the Jews will have pre-eminence 
at Jerusalem when the Turkish empire is entirely- 
past away. Is it not apparent that such a revolu- 
tion must follow immediately on the demise of that 
power which now is posted at the gates of the holy 
city, and supplies the cannon upon the castle of 
David, (Who is the chief magistrate at Jerusalem? 
A Turk deputed by the Sultan, the prince of Is- 
lamism, and representative of Mahomet,) as will 
convulse the world? The Jews are now dispersed 
to the four quarters of the inhabited globe. It is 
no secret that desire for the return of their long 
captivity bears sway over every other emotion in 
the heart of Judah and his companions, although 
individuals among them are not ready to confess 
it openly. A vacation at mount Moriah will elicit 
the fact, and the valiant will expect to fight for their 
city and land. The Jews are now looking for their 
Messiah, and they pray without ceasing for him to 
appear and to lead their battles. When the tidings 
that Constantinople is taken from the Turk sound 
in every quarter of the holy city, what must be the 
first and prevalent sensation in the breast of her 
present inmates? Is not Moriah the magnet that 
draws every eye to its sacred inclosure ? The Ar- 
minian, the Latin, the Greek, may at once tremble 
for their idolized spot, the sepulchre, when Moriah 
is free of her late commander. The eyes of Zion's 



12 

children may be lighted up with hope that their 
next feast shall be celebrated on that spot elected 
by the God of Israel for his ordinances and praise* 
But the angel of hope is silent. She sits in their 
bosom as a trembling fugitive, and is but a preven- 
tive to despair. 

But silence is wisdom in that hour, " therefore 
the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is 
an evil time:" evil indeed, for a revolution may be 
expected in which the Devil is suffered to display 
his great wrath for a short time, and awful is the 
scene. Human language must fall short indeed of 
the reality, and thought in mortal bosoms is unable 
to frame a likeness of that monster, the devil embo- 
died, called the wicked one. 

But how will Satan get this advantage? I can 
only give my own opinion, and this I refer to the 
holy gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

" I am come in my Father's Name, and ye receive 
me not. If another shall come in his own name, 
him ye will receive." 

Satan knows that he must delegate his power to 
an individual of Adam's race whom he can deceive, 
and have no rival in the Holy Spirit to hinder him. 
To this prepared individual Satan gives his own 
seat, viz. the heart of man, with the exception of a 
remnant* in Israel, and the sealed saints of Jesus. 

* It is obvious to the Literalist that the "remnant according to 
the election of grace," who received the Messiah in his gospel of 
salvation to save sinners (in Apostolic times;, is but part of the 
beautiful Rebekah's bridal jewels. Another remnant is held out 



13 

These are safe because their names are written in 
the book of life, of the Lamb slain from the foun- 
dation of the world. Satan has had dominion in 
the natural heart of man ever since Adam fell, and 
the effect has been illustrated by Christ and his 
apostles. Our Lord recounts thirteen abominations 
that proceed out of the heart of man, and he com- 
mences with evil thoughts, which is the conception 
of iniquity, rebellion, crime, such as adulteries, for- 
nications, murders, &c. The regenerate feel the 
plague of the heart, but are instructed and directed 
by grace to yield to the crucifixion of their old man, 
and by quickening grace, restraining grace, renew- 
ing grace, and sanctifying grace, are enabled to 
speak and to act differently from the world. These 
are lambs among wolves at this day; lambs are 
scarce, and wolves are very numerous. 

What a host of unregenerate hearts would be 
given up by the spiritual arch foe to his head son, 

to our view in the word of the Lord by Zechariah, (see 12 ch.) 
Understand, that in the day when Jerusalem shall be a cup of 
trembling to her invaders [not the case in the siege by Titus] — 
when she shall be a burdensome stone to all the nations that bur- 
den themselves in essaying to possess her gates: in that day the 
God of Israel declares that he will open his eyes on Judah, he 
will defend his city, he will visit the house of David, they shall 
look on Him whom they have pierced, and bitterly grieve for him. 
Now look at the ]3th ch., and observe that in cleansing his land 
from idolatry and the unclean spirit, the Lord raises this standard 
against Satan (or anti-Christ), and will bring a third part through 
the fire. He says, I will refine them as silver is refined, and will 
try them as gold is tried, they shall call on my name, I will hear 
them, &c. 

B 



14 

the literal son of perdition, the man of sin, if the 
battle is fought shortly, that compels Satan to make 
lies his refuge in the personal and last Anti-Mes- 
siah! How exactly fitted to be subjects of a king- 
dom founded in pride, is the present generation of 
men. Read Paul's description of the great majo- 
rity at this time. I shall commence with "covetous, 
and go through: Covetous, see Christ's command 
in Luke 6; boasters, see Matthew 5, 6, 7 chapters; 
proud, see Matthew 11, 29; blasphemers, disobe- 
dient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natu- 
ral affection, truce breakers, false accusers, inconti- 
nent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 
traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures 
more than lovers of God : Having the form of 
godliness, but denying the power thereof." 

The name of Christ is now professed very much 
after the manner described in the fourth chapter of 
Isaiah, but this profession must drop whenever the 
Jews have a captain in Jerusalem; and none but 
the little* ones who eat the bread divine, and wear 
the robe divine, will continue to say, Who is like 
to thee, Lord, among the gods glorious in holi- 
ness, fearful in praises? these will hate their lives 
in such a time, and yield to death rather than 
worship the Beast and his image. 

* The elect remnant will not escape the temptation, but they 
will not fall irrecoverably; they fall, but not to the Beast; they get 
into much difficulty by indecision and fright, but they shall be 
holpen with a little help, and finally will be saved in escaping. — 
See Daniel and Ezekiel. 



15 

This is a subject replete with gloom and sadness. 
I always long to get away from it, but there is one 
imperative motive forbidding me to evade the tes- 
timony, and this is, faithfulness to the literal fulfil- 
ment of the inspired prophecies, which clearly 
demonstrate the attempt of Satan to move the 
God of Israel to consume the sons of Jacob, that 
he might have no kingdom upon earth; and our 
Lord said, "except those days should be shortened, 
no flesh should be saved." Of course, the Son of 
David would have no kingdom upon earth, and 
the passover, the feast of tabernacles, the voluntary 
burnt offerings and voluntary peace offerings shall 
never be celebrated in the beauties of holiness, and 
to the acceptance of the Son of man. What a 
body of prophecy originated by the Holy Ghost, 
would fail, if this earth is never to be "filled with 
the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the 
sea;" and the animal creation be restored, with the 
exception of the serpent, who is condemned at each 
end (Eden polluted, and Eden cleansed), to eat 
dust all the days of his life ! I do not overlook the 
sacred testimony concerning the new heavens and 
the new earth. I believe the Lord will "make all 
things new" in his glorious times of restitution; 
but at the first he commands in his Word, that his 
people shall rejoice forever in the restoration of 
Jerusalem, as it is an event of everlasting moment 
to his praise, for there shall no more come into her 
the uncircumcised and the unclean, when once her 
sovereign Lord takes personal rule upon David's 



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throne. Such characters will not be permitted to 
dwell in the cleansed city; and should there be a 
rebel discovered, death with the seal of eternity is 
his portion, although at a hundred years old he is 
denominated but a child, and is not dressed in the 
marriage robe, even holiness which breathes praise 
to the blood of the Lamb. 

But I have not done with the distress. Of all the 
idolatry that was ever committed by the people of 
God, whether in Egypt or the wilderness, in Sa- 
maria or Jerusalem, there is nothing so entirely 
past all mercy and forbearance of God, as the wor- 
ship of the beast, which is Abaddon or the lion of 
hell, incarnate, that is Satan embodied* in human 
nature. The worshippers of this being from the 
bottomless pit, in their rapture of delusion, chal- 
lenge the God of the universe to try an encounter 
with this man of sin. The heinousness of their idol- 
atry is manifest in the consent of his worshippers 
to that awful assumption, " I am God : I sit in the 
seat of God," &c. How dreadful is the thought that 
this horrible victory of Satan is to be personal at 
Jerusalem, where David and the prophets praised 
the Holy One of Israel, whose "mercy is from ever- 
lasting to everlasting on them that fear him." 

In this victory the serpent bruises the heel of the 
Holy Saviour of Israel ; but the essential glory of 
Zion's King is secure in the infinity of his power ; 
and the marring of his footsteps upon earth for six 
thousand years, being finished in a full reign of ob- 
literation, for three years and six moons, the Lamb 



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slain from the foundation of the world, is suddenly 
manifested as the Lion of Judah, and the remem- 
brance of his cross and passion revives even with 
force that awakes the dead, for Caiphas beholds 
Him sitting on the right hand of power, and coming 
in the clouds of heaven, to judge the world. Ah ! 
in that tremendous day, the wounds in those bless- 
ed hands, that Caiphas saw stretched forth to heal, 
will appear as horns where is the hiding of his 
power, and the sight is more awful to the unjust 
and filthy, than even the sword from his mouth ; 
for Oh ! they proclaim a savour of death unto death, 
which is their fate, by their own perversion of his 
gospel, which publishes life unto life. 

Why are multitudes, multitudes (see Joel) chal- 
lenged by the Lord, to combat, in the valley of de- 
cision ? Because they have invaded his rights in 
Zion. Why are two parts of the inhabitants of the 
land cut off in that day ? Because they have wor- 
shipped the Beast. Why did they worship him ? 
Because they were deceived by his flatteries ? Why 
were they left to this delusion ? Because they re- 
jected the truth. How is it then, that any are saved 
from that temptation, which is decreed (see mes- 
sage to the Philos Delphos church) to come on all 
them that dwell upon the earth ? The answer is, 
that there is an election according to grace. * 

1. Of the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the Holy 
land throughout, one third part : See Zech. 13. 

2. A seventh part of the Christian church. 

3. The isles of the sea, Egypt and Assyria. 



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The first are denominated in scripture, " Israel 
mine elect," and they are the lineal descendants of 
the very man, who won that title at Bethel in one 
night ; for it is written " by his strength he had 
power with God ; yea, he had power over the an- 
gel and prevailed : he wept, and made supplica- 
tion unto him, he found him in Bethel, and there 
spake with the Lord God of hosts : therefore, to 
Ephraim is said, "turn thou to thy God: keep mer- 
cy and judgment, and wait on thy God con- 
tinually." 

I believe there are three ways of escaping, viz. 
by martyrdom, translation and flight to the moun- 
tains round about Judea. The latter is for the pre- 
servation of flesh ; the second for the sake of our 
Lord's testimony to that kind of faith which em- 
braces him at Lazarus' grave, as the resurrection 
and life ; and the third is the nearest alliance of them 
all, to the martyr Lamb, in his glory, for their over- 
coming by his blood, is united with their testi- 
mony for his truth; and the latter is sealed by their 
death, while their victory is ascribed to the Lamb, 
which redeemed them to God by his death. What 
can be so desirable to the heart that is in love with 
Jesus, as to die for the testimony of truth ! 

I have heard very pious Literalists extol transla- 
tion or rapture of believers into the air, to meet our 
Lord, and come with him and his saints to Zion, 
as the greatest of all honour ever conferred upon 
mortals; and that this reserve in the economy of 
grace, is a far more desirable object than martyr- 



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dom. I have had the privilege of an acquaintance 
with persons who cherished this sentiment, and 
longed to be clothed upon with their house from 
Heaven, a body like unto Christ's glorious body, 
who hath immortality. I confess I could not see 
in their light, the issue of Christian warfare as sa- 
cred to the suffering gospel in the awful time by 
Satan's short triumph, in comparison with "not 
loving life to the death." But, I do not set up my 
opinion for others to adopt into their belief of good, 
and the best. I am far, very far behind the dear 
saints, whose souls are on the wing, ready to rival 
the eagle's flight, and mount aloft to join the Lord 
of hosts in his glory. Neither can I, nor do I, pre- 
tend to assert positively, that martyrdom is of equal 
grace to translation into the immortality won by 
Christ for his followers in faith. ^ I should not dare 
to do this, while the testimony of Paul recorded in 
his first epistle to the saints at Thessalonica, 4th 
chapter and 17th verse, is before me. It may be 
conceived that those who remain alive in their bo- 
dies unto the coming of our Lord, must have at- 
tained a greater measure of the faith which over- 
cometh the world, than any other characters except 
the two elect witnesses, who are decreed to be slain 
by the Beast from the bottomless pit, at the end of 
his reign of usurpation over all that is called God, 
or that is worshipped. But here is a question: Is 
the faith that holds them in life, in the " time of 
affliction such as never was from the beginning of 
the creation which Gop hath created, nor ever shall 



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be again," so much like the Saviour's who pro- 
fessed himself not satisfied until his baptism of suf- 
ferings should be accomplished? 

But stop — some will say, that our Lord's glori- 
ous epiphany precedes the reign of the Beast. I 
declare that in my English Bible I read it the very 
reverse. I will now cite the gospel of Mark, and 
present the plain declaration of our blessed Saviour, 
concerning his glorious appearing: " In those days, 
after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, 
and the moon shall not give her light: And the 
stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are 
in heaven shall be shaken: And then shall they 
see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven 
with great power and glory." 

I cannot believe that any part of the glory pre- 
cedes the tribulation; and my appeal is made to 
the scriptures, as I read them in the English lan- 
guage. I refer to Daniel's vision of the eleventh 
horn, which had " eyes like a man, and a mouth 
speaking very great things;" this "horn made war 
with the saints, and prevailed against them" (com- 
pare Apoc, 13 c. & 19 c.) until the Ancient of days 
came. Can it be denied that there will be great 
wrath of Satan in Anti-Christ, manifested in that 
woful day ? 

The idea, however, which some precious souls 
cherish, that the Lord will shelter them, not in, but 
away from that tribulation, may serve as an incite- 
ment to more ardent prayer to be ready for Him, 
than I have hitherto been inclined to suppose; for 



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I renew my confession that I am far in the rear of 
that perfection in charity which they seem to me 
to have attained. Still, I firmly adhere to this, that 
the rapture into the air, without tasting death, is a 
part of Christ's glory; and it must take place at his 
coming, when the dead in Christ rise first, i. e. be- 
fore the living saints are changed; and then both 
classes are caught up together in the clouds to meet 
the Lord in the air, &c. 

That "the dead in Christ rise first/' I under- 
stand, that this is the first resurrection ; and these 
are the special ones that reign with him a thousand 
years. I see Isaiah and Paul, Zachariah and Peter, 
&c, the glory of martyrdom for the Word of God, 
or the witness of Jesus (see Apoc. 20 c.) seem to be 
equal; and then I discover there are those who 
" have not worshipped the Beast, neither his image, 
neither had received his mask in their hands or 
upon their foreheads; and they lived and reigned 
with Christ a thousand years." What can I infer 
then, with my eyes .upon such a plain vision of that 
glory which was exhibited to John at Patmos, but 
the union of the martyr Lamb with his martyred 
company, in the reign of blessedness upon the earth. 

But, I do not shut the door of that kingdom against 
the "living changed at Christ's coming;" nor ex- 
clude them from the table of our Lord, or from a 
participation of his reign over the house of Jacob, 
sitting upon the throne of David, to order and 
establish it with judgment and justice forever. No, 
God forbid that I should hold a theory like this. 



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The translated ones or the translated company will 
go up with the martyrs (who are emphatically dead 
in Christ — emphatically they sleep in Jesus) and 
they shall be ever with the Lord; but still I hold 
the other, the martyrs reign with the martyr 
Lamb. 

It has struck my mind, that in the reign of Anti- 
Messiah, there will be elicited a very singular 
affair, which I shall take the liberty to style, a 
changing sides. I know my standing and charac- 
ter with the present generation too well, to harbour 
a thought that my testimony will be received; for 
I am called "that eccentric individual," that crazy 
thing, &c. ; and I believe very few persons deign to 
read my books. This humiliation is best for me, 
if it serves to wean me more and more from crea- 
tures, and excites greater desire after him, who will 
never break the braised reed — nor scorn the mean- 
est name. To His order of overturning the states 
of mortals, my eye is permitted to look; and what 
I see, I must declare, and leave the result. 

"A changing sides!" what does she mean? I 
mean this, that formal professors of Christianity 
may fall to the Beast; and those who do not, may 
refuse to worship him. 

When Peter resisted his Master's testimony, that 
he was going up to Jerusalem to suffer and die an 
ignominious death, Peter still confessed that Jesus 
was Adonai; and accompanied the lowly shepherd 
of Israel to the holy city. 

When Peter neglected to watch, and left praying, 



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to sleep for sorrow, he was yet in the garden with 
Jesus, and with James and John, was only about a 
stone's cast from the spot where our Lord sweat 
blood from excess of holy agony, unknown. 

When Peter denied his suffering Master, he only 
brought forth the fruit of his former failures, and 
fright was the means of it. Let us, then, compare 
the fears of a Jew in Caesar's time, and the per- 
plexity of a Laodicean character in the time of 
Satan's great wrath, by his embodiment in human 
nature, and literally styled the Destroyer; shall we 
not be compelled to say, that the overplus of con- 
sternation is at the door of the latter, when that 
edict is presented face to face — worship this image, 
take this mark, confess to this number, or you shall 
buy and sell no more? Beside, and additional to 
this proscription, death must be your eventual 
doom if you refuse obedience to this law of the age. 

This is the effect of the Lamb's wrath, while that 
wrath is kindled but a little; for in this stage of 
Anti-Christ's power, the latter prevails against the 
saints of Jesus ; and from thence we may believe 
divine anger increases to vengeance, for the day of 
vengeance is in the heart of the injured Lamb, and 
its close ushers in the year of the redeemed that fol- 
lows the wo with an interregnum of but half an 
hour. 

In that time there seems to be no opportunity for 
obtaining a supply of grace ; and the destitute con- 
dition of the formalist is manifested by the forlorn 
issue of his professions, which are of no value in 



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the estimation of the wilful king, who regards no 
God but the god of forces or war. I should not sup- 
pose it possible for a thoughtful reader of the holy 
prophecies, to contend this point, even that the 
wondering of the whole world after the Beast, ex- 
cept those whose names are in the Book of Life, 
precludes the expectation that there will be refor- 
mation and amendment among the wicked and 
slothful servants who have rejected the truth, in 
their days of (nominal) tranquillity, which at the 
present time especially , seems like a grant from the 
Lord to prepare for the great wo ! ! ! The great 
wo, is the day of Jacob's trouble, out of which he 
is to be saved, by divine decree ; but the genera- 
tion of the wrath of the Lamb, must suffer the wo ; 
and its extremity of misery, I believe is strong de- 
lusion, sent by a just God upon all who will not 
now receive the truth in the love of it, that they 
might be saved. What can be accounted so terri- 
ble as judicial blindness and judicial hardness of 
heart ? It seals the soul unpardoned : it seals the 
soul to filthiness : it seals the soul to the second 
death ; and there is no remedy ; for there is no 
knowledge then given of the way of escape ; but 
men "shall walk as blind men:" and their blindness 
is entire night to their souls. In that awful time 
will the formal proud professor of the gospel of 
Christ, who has despised the day of small things, 
even the honest testimony now borne in feebleness, 
to the near approach of the terrible day of the Lord, 
and that he will return personally to the earth, 



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will such professors I ask be able to stand ? Is not 
their state more fearful than the state of those who 
have never carried a lamp of profession at all? 
When every prop is removed from under them, 
(such as nominal acquiescence of civil governments, 
whether kingly or republic; and the aid of the 
press, or the influence of wealth &c.) to whom will 
they call for help, and where will they leave their 
glory ? It appears that " the whole world shall 
wonder after the Beast, except those whose names 
are in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the 
foundation of the world." It is apparent that no 
national government, now existing upon earth, can 
be recorded in the Book of Life ; and it is not hard 
to say, that the holy scriptures warrant the senti- 
ment that all Gentile governments shall be left to 
the imagination of a vain thing ; even that resist- 
ance to the crown of pride, the dragon of the sea, 
is hopeless, and even foolish, seeing that his popu- 
larity equals the power of his sway ; for he is to 
come up, and he is to become strong. I believe that 
Anti-Christ will pretend to favour democracy ; but 
his deluded followers may depend that no opinion 
apart from his declaration that he is God, will be 
suffered to occupy even their thoughts, for it is 
written that he is " wiser than Daniel, and no se- 
cret can be hid from him." Anti-Christ is a man ; 
but he ascendeth up out of the bottomless pit, the 
Beast, signifying only animal, therefore he is fitted 
and prepared to receive the Devil in the fall of the 
latter from his spiritual sphere, to earth ; and the 
c 



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wrath of Satan in Anti-Christ becomes the wrath 
of man, by consent of the animal to do Satan's 
work, or rather to finish the serpent's work for him. 
A wonderful and horrible thing ! The bold assertion 
of the Devil, which he made in the wilderness of 
the people of God, in his diabolical essay to per- 
vert the lowly Lamb, is suffered te revive by a hu- 
man delegate from the dark regions of hell, after 
the lapse of two thousand lunar years, from the 
Christmas that was celebrated by the blessed Vir- 
gin in the royal birth city of Judah ! ! ! It is the head- 
ing up, and the developement of the mystery of 
iniquity ; for it is the Devil's short time, for an ex- 
hibition of his first-born in our world, even that 
hydra monster Pride. Now analyze this word of 
five letters. 

P. Presumption, pomp, perdition. 

R. Rebellion, rage, revenge. 

I. Iniquity. 

D. Devilish, damnable. 

E. Envy, enmity ! 

Anti-Christ is the crown of pride, and he is king 
over all the children of pride. In his reign the 
wicked flourish, as green leaves of the green bay 
tree ; and to their view his eyes are as the light of 
the morning. Ah! he is the personification of Lucifer, 
which was light in the original, and celestial, but 
in leaving that estate (celestial) the transformation 
he sustained, into an angel of light, but not celestial, 
perverted the quality, and this light was his pre- 
tence in the original temptation, that beguiled Eve 
by its overblaze, or vanity ; and extinguished the 



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vital spark of immortality that was kindled in Adam 
by the breath of his Creator, God. 

The Blessed One said, " take heed that no man 
deceive you ;" and spake of false Christs and false 
prophets. He spake also of the abomination of 
desolation, referring to the testimony of Daniel the 
prophet, which the latter represents the abomina- 
tion that maketh desolate. This is, beyond a doubt, 
the man of sin, or manifestation of Satan, the 
Anti-Christ that denieth the Father and Son, that 
wicked or lawless one, who will usurp authority 
over all that is called God, or that is worshipped ; 
and is the idol shepherd that wastes the flock, and 
pasture of the Lord, for the time he occupies upon 
earth, as Satan's delegated, universal king. It is 
impossible to vary this terror-inspiring subject from 
its literality, without doing violence to the words 
of scripture. They will come to pass, exactly ac- 
cording to the letter. Look at the 14th chapter 
of Isaiah ; and remember that the congregation of 
Jacob and Israel are addressed, as representative of 
their father Jacob, who was named Israel by the 
Lord God of hosts. See 1 v. and then pass to the 3d. 

" And it shall come to pass in the day that the 
Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from 
thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou 
wast made to serve, that thou shalt take up this 
proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, how 
hath the oppressor ceased.'' 

Now read the address of Judah and the house 
of David to the king of Babylon: 



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"Since thou art laid down, no fellow has come 
up against us : hell from beneath is moved for thee, 
&c." 

Pass on to the sixteenth verse : 

"They that see thee shall narrowly look upon! 
thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man 
that made the earth to tremble, that did shake 
kingdoms?" 

Look at the nineteenth verse : 

"Thou art cast out of thy grave like an abomi- 
nable branch — as the raiment of those that are 
slain, thrust through with a sword — that go down 
to the stones of the pit, as a carcass trodden under 
feet." 

I desire earnestly to propose this question to 
anti-literalists of every class now on the stage of 
action, and are denying the personality of the 
abomination of desolation, the abominable branch. 
Let conscience exercise her right, and you will not 
lie to the Holy Ghost. The question is this : 

In trying to reason with a Jew upon the testi- 
mony of Jesus, as recorded in the fifty-third chapter 
of Isaiah, what ground do you occupy ? Is it not 
literality ? Do you not exact of the Jew to forbear 
denying that his prophet foretold the scenes at 
Nazareth, Capernaum, and Jerusalem, which por- 
trayed the rejection, the sorrows, the disgrace, the 
condemnation, the vicarious sufferings, yea, and 
even the burial of Christ ? I propose these ques- 
tions to shame your inconsistency in evading lite- 
rality ! When the spiritual humiliation of Christ 






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is consummated by the reign of the last anti-Mes- 
siah (even while the glorified manhood is above 
the heavens, and seated on the right hand of God), 
your works will certainly be burned, and if your 
souls are saved, it must be so as by fire. The 
testimony of Jesus is the soul of prophecy, and the 
whole body of scripture is the sacred inclosure for 
this quickening Spirit, the Truth. The blessed 
Saviour once trod the soil of promise as "a man of 
sorrows," as prophecy foreshew six hundred years 
precedent to his advent in humility, lowliness, and 
love. 

" The abominable desolator will as surely walk 
upon that now defiled earth, as the man of sin, at 
his advent from hell, in pride, presumption, and 
(hitherto) unmatched hatred of the true Christ of 
God. His manifestation is only delayed until He* 
that hindereth is taken out of the way; then (says 
the Spirit by Paul), shall that wickedt be revealed 
whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of 
his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of 
his coming." 

The Apostle of the Gentiles expressly and posi- 
tively declared, that the day of Christ shall not 
come till after the revelation of the man of sin; and 
who is the man of sin? I answer, the Lucifer in 
the fourteenth of Isaiah, even the wo of Jerusalem 

* The Turk, who confesses to one God and Mahomet. 
t Lawless One, if you prefer it; "that wicked" I should say, is 
however perfectly apropos. 



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and her children, at the time of the end of Gentile 
dominion upon the holy temple ground. 

I do believe that the generation of the nineteenth 
century must meet the proceeds of this appalling 
and mysterious event, and that it is very near. I 
believe that Anti-Messiah will stand up at the time 
of reigning perplexity at Mount Zion, by the vaca- 
tion of dominion on Mount Moriah: that this is 
Satan's opportunity to introduce his Head Son as 
a candidate for the throne of David; and I think 
the Jews will make a league with him, but the 
honour of "God save the king" will be withheld 
from him, which I infer by the circumstance of a 
league being made, &c; and beside, I do not think 
it possible that the sacred name of Deity will ever 
be called upon for Anti-Christ, for he is entirely cut 
off (in the fall of Satan into him) from the Original 
and Maker of angels and men. 

I believe that this false one will pave the way 
to the throne, however, by flatteries (not flattery), 
that will appear even to the religious Jews, in the 
form of true judgment in their favour; and one is, 
that if they will but fight under his banner, he will 
build for them in a very short time, a temple far 
more glorious than even was their first temple, 
pretending that his obtaining the kingdom, is not 
only the terms of his league, but likewise the due 
order of restoring their former glory, citing (devil- 
like) scripture for example, and referring to the 
ostensible fact, that until Solomon possessed the 
throne of David in peace, no temple was built. 



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Anti-Christ holds up the olive branch, and calls it 
the symbol of his Messiahship. He says, I come 
in my own name,* and I can conquer for you with 
my own sword, which shall now be given to me 
in your presence, to prove by a wonder that I am 
master of fate ; and as he thus flatters, a great sword 
is presented to him (by whom I cannot say, pro- 
bably his false Elijah), and the glittering of that 
bright, strong, furbished sword, may gather to him 
as many men as followed Absalom from Jerusalem 
to Hebron. It is a lamentable fact, that by flatte- 
ries, Anti-Christ will gain the hearts of the chosen 
people of God, but they will not be given up to 
him nationally, for the purpose of God according 
to election will stand out even against this revolt; 
for the purpose of God is founded in himself, which 
is Love; and the purpose of Anti-Christ is founded 
in hatred of God. Now Love is eternal, and had 
no creator; but hatred is only from the beginning, 
which God never had, who is Love. God is the 
beginning, but his nature is without beginning or 
end. 

Such is the stability of the covenant of God, that 
he bound with his oath to his ineifable name, that 
the mountains flying through air, and the hills 
dancing over the moon, yea, even the heavens 
dissolving, and the earth returned to chaos, are 
nothing of comparisons to liken the impossibility 
of a removal of his love from Zion; and oh ! as if 

* Whatever it is. 



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the announcement of sovereignty infinite, "I will 
be gracious to whom I will be gracious/' required 
a God sympathising spirit to ascend from this earth 
to support the honour of God in the sight of angels 
in glory ; the dying Lamb in the last moments of 
his passion, cried, "Father forgive them, they know 
not what they do V 9 Yea, and that prayer went 
up to the throne above the heavens, it enveloped 
justice, it covered judgment, and the composition 
of this perfume being the blood of the Lamb, and 
breath divine, it will never, never lose its power, 

"Till all the ransomed sons of God 
Are saved to sin no more." 
* * * * *• # * 

It appears to human reason (in the natural man 
a GoD-opposing principle) both inconsistent and 
impossible, that all of Satan's power and influence, 
or authority, should be concentrated, and invested 
in one man. The rejection of mysteries, founded in 
pride, is the offspring of unbelief, and exhibits the 
foolishness of human nature, that pretends to be 
something, while it is nothing ; for it can neither 
comprehend itself, or the earth from whence it came. 
The braying of a wild ass upon the mountains, is 
quite as eloquent and harmonious, as the voice of 
infidelity, in the desert of sin, which is man's 
heart, and pours out foolishness. Opposition to mys- 
teries is the natural consequence of enmity against 
God, who is invisible to mortal eyes as a being, or 
the Existence ; and in the carnal mind enmity 
against God reigns by one, even Satan, who leads 



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it in captivity to sin, which is a state of moral death. 
No marvel then, that the natural man is at war 
with the scriptures, that declare to man the mys- 
tery of godliness, and the mystery of iniquity, as 
subjects of his belief, while he can no more com- 
prehend them in his natural state, than an infant of 
an hour can know its father's voice. ! man ! what 
dost thou remember of thy first breath in this 
world ? Thou must be told the day of thy birth by 
some one born before thee, or how couldst thou tell 
its date. The day of thy death is concealed from 
thy knowledge, however great thy pretensions ; 
and the hiding is in God's unsearchable will, unto 
whom, as thy Creator, belong the issues from death. 
Dost thou deny the existence of mystery for lack of 
evidence ? Nay. The light of a noon day sun un- 
obscured by a cloud, is no surer mark of the absence 
of night from the horizon you behold, than your 
falling asleep, or dreaming, or awaking out of sleep, 
are matters of fact, while the power in their changes, 
are entirely incomprehensible, and beyond your 
ability to define, or to explain. Mysteries are 
secrets : things hid, or beyond comprehension, and 
they exist, in mode and nature to benighted man 
unknown ; for he is lost. The scriptures inform man 
that he is lost ; and that the Son of God came from 
the bosom of the Father, to find and to save man. 
Here is mystery : How can God have a Son in His 
bosom ? How can God send his Son into the world? 
Jesus Christ is named in the scriptures, as the Son 
from Heaven ; and yet he is born of a woman. How 



can this be ? It is a mystery. Now, while man ob- 
jects to mystery, because it is incomprehensible to 
his thoughts, when he reads in scripture that a 
Saviour is provided for him, who came down 
from Heaven, and yet is born of a virgin in Beth- 
lehem, poor fallen man, whose breath is in his nos- 
trils, who is of yesterday, and his days as a sha- 
dow, rejects the counsel of God against himself, 
rather than to confess the reality of mystery. The 
mystery of God, in the gospel of his dear Son is in- 
deed a strait gate ; and though it is opened by the 
hand of divine mercy, man stumbles and falls be- 
fore it, because he cannot enter in the filthy array 
of his own fallen nature. To be stripped naked, 
and to be drawn through by a power he knows not, 
is too entire humiliation of his supposed glory of in- 
tellect, and the false philosophy of his dark mind 
decries the cross as foolishness and deformity; 
therefore, the poor soul is involved in the mystery 
of iniquity, which is of the serpent, who opens a 
wide gate, that is easy to enter, in all the stiff robes 
of fallen nature, with the crown of " earthly sen- 
sual, devilish," set up high on the pinnacle of hu- 
man folly, which is called Reason. 

The holy scriptures represent only two original 
characters, good and evil. The first is of God, and 
was manifested in his Son Jesus Christ, who ex- 
hibited faithfulness without deceit, humility the 
opposite of pride, gentleness to the shame of fierce- 
ness, wisdom without ostentation, and uprightness 
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Evil is of Satan, and will be fully manifested in 
the first born of hell personified human — Anti- 
Christ will illustrate the real character of his father 
the Devil. Deceit and pride, fierce rage and fool- 
ish ostentation, with the partiality of that wisdom 
that is from beneath, that is favourable only to the 
children of pride, display Satan's depths, in the 
career of the son of perdition. 

What a time, times and half time is allotted for 
the two last witnesses of Christ, in whose testimony 
and acts appear to be summed up all the power 
that remains for the Holy Ghost to manifest in fa- 
vour of the true Messiah of Israel, while the vision 
of glory tarries, and moral darkness is spread as 
an Egyptian night of judgment, all over the king- 
doms and the nations, on the face of the whole 
created earth and world ! " I will give power to 
my two witnesses." Very striking words. Perhaps 
few persons now upon earth, have considered the 
expressions " my two witnesses," as reverently 
and deeply, as their reality demands. Adorable 
Jesus ! why is Gabriel, and the heavenly host, 
silent in that awful day ! They celebrated thy birth 
in testimony and song ; and they will all worship 
thee, at thy second advent. One appeared in 
gloomy Gethsemane, and one rolled the stone away 
from thy tomb, and two sat there after thou wast 
released by the glory of the Father ; and they wit- 
nessed to thy resurrection — to weeping Mary. 
Two men appeared and stood upon Mount Olivet, 
while the chariots of God, even thousands of the 



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holy angels bore aloft in sacred triumph thy glori- 
fied body, upon which was visible the print of the 
cruel nails, and the rent by the Gentile spear ! The 
two men in white apparel, these declared thy second 
coming. 

It seems to my poor mind, that the incarnation 
of the Son of God in the first instance, is devoted 
to that people who rejected his divinity, in two 
departments, one in the pride of Joseph's house, 
and the other in the self-will of Judah's ministers, 
the Sadducean priesthood, with Pharisees, who 
were doctors or professors of theology, that suited 
Satan so well, that their house was called by our 
Lord, "the power of darkness." Jesus is the 
Saviour of all who believe; but Jesus is "the 
Christ," and this means Messiah; and he is pro- 
mised only to the descendants of Jacob: hence, our 
Lord assured the woman of Samaria at the well, 
that "salvation is of the Jews." The words "Anti- 
Christ" signify to me, enemy of the Jews, in their 
most fatal import, for he comes to that people as 
a thief cometh, to steal, to kill, and to destroy. As 
to the blessed Jesus, the prince of this age had 
nothing in him, even before he conquered death by 
dying, and the grave by rising; and now that he is 
actually in his own body seated on the right hand 
of God, his exaltation has the purpose of God 
closely appended to it, which the Holy Ghost 
expounded by Peter and the other apostles, to the 
high priest and the Jewish council in Jerusalem ; 
see Acts v. 31 ; and the purpose of God according 



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to election will stand. In the chosen remnant God 
beholds them in Christ, as Christ glorified is in God, 
and the prince of this world whether spiritual or 
personal, has no property in them at all, now or in 
the presence of the woful day. 

I suppose it is for the sake of the elect, the chosen 
remnant, that our blessed Lord sends the witness- 
es, to bear testimony for him, during Satan's short 
time of great wrath, and it appears that he has but 
two to send; for he says, "my two witnesses." I 
shall now expose more fully than ever, my Jewish 
mode of intepretation of prophecy; and beside that 
I have no influence to lose, there is another reason 
why I am conscious of fearlessness in this matter. 
It is this : I belong to the sex which was abased in 
man's transgression by the woman's temptation by 
Satan, and her temptation of the man, so very low, 
that even the birth of Christ, in which she repre- 
sents her original form, the temple of the Lord 
God, has not raised her to the dignity assigned in 
her formation ; and it cannot take place, until "mor- 
tality is swallowed up of life." The reign of Anti- 
Christ is Jacob's wo. Rachel is dead and buried. 
The weary sheep* is fleeced and killed.! 

Now I read in my Bible, that the intention of 
the Lord God in forming woman of a single rib 
from a living soul, was to help Adam keep the 
garden of the Lord God. In the fall she lost her 
office of help meet indeed; for they were both 

* The meaning of Rachel. t Ezekiel xxxvii. 1 — 3. 

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turned out of the garden of the Lord. The woman 
was then to be a servant, subject to the rule of 
fallen man, who had no promise of restoration to 
life, but by her as the mother of all living. Sorrows 
clustered about her in the wilderness of her exile, 
and tears were the dew in her thorny path; but in 
her bosom faith placed first, the lamp and the light 
of that gracious commandment, " Believe the gos- 
pel," and woman looked upon the morning star, 
while Adam was digging among thorns and thistles, 
to get from the ground (that was cursed for his 
sake) the bread that perisheth. By and by, she 
that was named the mother of all living, brought 
forth Satan's agent to the literal work of returning 
man to dust; and blood was shed, that cried for 
blood to atone, even kindred blood, and no other 
will be accepted. Woman then, must bewail her 
transgression in Eden, at the foot of the Cross; and 
at the peril of the second death (by the flaming 
breath of the devouring Dragon, the devil in figure 
of a roaring lion), she turns her back from that only 
ensign of victory over her primal foe, until the 
Lamb is taken down and laid in the new tomb. 
While Jesus sleeps, woman may prepare ointments 
and perfume, until the setting sun is her sign that 
creation sleeps in Jesus, and her faithful hands rest 
from their labours, according to the commandment. 
On the morn of the first day of the week, woman 
visits the honoured tomb. Only angels were there 
before her; and in her desolate heart, she bears a 
burden angels never knew, for she carries the cross 






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in agony; but it is precious, for Jesus had been 
nailed thereon, and there He died. Woman enters 
the garden, perhaps desiring to die on the spot, 
when she has poured the sacrifice of her love over 
the marred face, the pierced hands and feet of her 
slain Lord. She says, who shall roll us the stone 
away "from His tomb? She looks, and behold 
the door is open. I almost wonder that Mary 
Magdalene should have doubted the strength of 
hei love nerved arm. The work was however 
done, by a bright angel from the Father; and Mary 
entered the holy sepulchre, with her sisters in this 
sorrow; but alas, the Lord was not there. Angels 
of God were then sole occupants of the sacred tomb; 
— they spoke — to Mary (weeping, faithful Mary 
Magdalene), why weepest thou? the white robed 
angels cried. Hear her reply: "they have taken 
away my Lord," &c. Who Mary, who has taken 
Him away? The Unitarians or the anti-Literalists 
she might have groaned out; but Mary tied — she 
ran to the male disciples — and she ran back to the 
tomb. O! the distracted grief of Mary! Her sor- 
row lay too deep for human sympathy — she let 
them all go away: and the angels disappeared — 
poor Mary only remains on the forsaken spot, re- 
mained to weep till the eyes that looked in vain for 
Jesus in the tomb, might drop their \v r eary lids in 
death. But 0! wonderful! ye angels stay your 
flight upward to your bliss above. Look down on 
earth again. Behold the Majesty you adore. The 
Lokd of Life, even of your life, ye snow white 



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robed seraphs of his power, the Lord of glory, even 
your glory, ye spirits winged with fire of love 
divine, see, He appears to Mary Magdalene; and 
not to terrify her senses by the splendour of his 
priestly vestments, as the king of Salem in full 
glory, as at the day of judgment she will see him 
descend to Zion. No — Mary even thought the 
gardener was speaking to her. Man — thou mayest 
have all that earth can prepare for thee, to set thee 
off, and make thee superior to woman in the sight 
of eyes that are flesh. The mitre, the surplice, the 
pulpit, and all manner of titles appropriated by 
man to man, thou art more than welcome to engross 
them all. Woman requires nothing of the kind to 
exalt, to dignify, or adorn her character. See her 
in the garden prostrated to the hallowed earth, at 
the feet of the second Adam, fresh from the tomb 
where He was laid as the slain martyr Lamb, now 
risen from the dead a quickening spirit for his dead 
body, the elect of God. Woman is alone with the 
man who is Heaven and earth's just ruler, Hea- 
ven's glory, and earth His footstool's peace. So it 
was in the young bowers of Eden before man fell; 
and now man is risen and exalted. Woman is 
prostrate at the feet of man, the man Christ Jesus, 
the Lord of glory; and tins is her sacred posture, 
with the cross engraved upon her faithful heart, 
confessing her Lord, until He issues the command 
by which she is ordained his servant, to carry 
tidings of His resurrection to the apostles, "as they 
mourned and wept." 



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Woman at Nazareth is addressed by Gabriel the 
angel of Adonai; and he said, Hail! thou that art 
highly favoured, blessed art thou among women. 
At Jerusalem, woman is told of her mourning day 
by the holy Simeon. At Jacob's well, woman lis- 
tened to the voice of Messiah, and confessed him 
divine. He bade her go and call her husband. In 
all these scenes, we may behold the plan, and the 
prospect of woman's deliverance from her capti- 
vity; and the raising up of David's fallen taberna- 
cle, the consolation and the glory of Israel, with 
the water springing up unto everlasting life, are all 
recorded in the history of woman's pilgrimage from 
the wilderness on her return to Eden, where we at 
last behold her as the Bride of the Lamb; and her 
name is Jerusalem, till after her marriage to the 
Lamb.* 

But Mary Magdalene in the garden with her 
risen Lord, is in verity the literal representative of 
woman restored as a being, and the last is the first. 
In this most peculiarly interesting scene (that we 
may contemplate with awe and delight), our minds 
(if renewed in the spirit) may survey the peace of 
God! In the risen Victor, it is the harmony of 
that new song which is the song of the Lamb, for 
he made it by his blood; and he is the peace of his 
followers, in his resurrection from the dead, which 
Mary Magdalene is the first to receive, for a testi- 

* See Isaiah lxii. 2. 



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mony that the works of the Devil are destroyed, 
and Eden is again the delight of God. 

But man, poor man, he had not a personal inter- 
view with the Lord God, in that glorious morn; 
nor indeed at all on the original spot, since the cool 
of that fearful day of his fall, by which death was 
introduced into the world, as a king whose power 
is not his own, but invested with dominion, until 
One should enter his pale territory without sin, and 
by separateness from the cause, He should destroy 
the effect, by suffering, for sacrifice that is right- 
eousness, in essence the perfection of God. Jesus 
Christ thus entered the dark valley. He knew no 
sin. He was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate 
from sinners. Death could not hold him in his 
iron grasp. The dreadful thing, (for sin is only 
that, it is no being,) that brought death into the 
world, was never in Christ, although he was made 
under the law, which is the strength of sin.* In 
every other breast that is human, the sting of death 
was planted in Adam's fall. It is written that God 
took Enoch by another way, and Elijah was car- 
ried up to heaven in a chariot of fire; but this does 
not set them apart from Adam in his fall. Christ 
alone is the holy, holy, holy.t The knowledge of 



* N. B. It may be observed, that Christ (i. e. the Messiah), at 
his resurrection, resumed his original glory. See John, chapter 
xvii. 

t Enoch walked with Gon, and God took him. The Apostle 
testifies that Enoch never tasted death ; he was redeemed, but by 
grace to himself; and the world out of which he was saved perish- 



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sin, which is by the law, Christ had not in himself, 
for he was obedient even unto righteousnesses, 

cd. But Christ, in tasting death, redeemed the world. Enoch 
was the seventh from Adam. Christ is the only begotten Son of 
God, the first and the last. Elijah confessed he was not better 
than his fathers; and the Apostle James testified that Elijah was 
a man of like passions with others. Neither Enoch nor Elijah 
could have passed through the territory of the king of terrors: 
had they been brought to him, their bodies would appear like any 
other human body, a grain of Adam's dust. But Christ had a 
body in which privation of being could not even seem to intrude; 
but instead thereof he had original Existence, and was with the 
Existence, :,nd was, and is, and is to come, the existence veiled in 
human flesh, that was pure from sin, because separate from Adam. 
The blessed Saviour styled himself "the Son of Man," because he 
was born of woman, who was taken out of man, was bone of his 
and flesh of his; but the woman is not dead in herself, as Adam 
was dead in himself. She died in Adam, and death commenced 
his reign from Adam. Eve was not made of the dust of the 
ground. She was made of one rib of a living soul. When God 
breathed the breatli of lives into Adam, he became a living soul; 
and when Eve was made, the lives were in her as in Adam; but 
she is superior in her birth, for the material of her body had life 
in it, that was passive under the operation of God, who formed 
her in a manner far more mysterious than the body that was 
made of the mould of the earth. I discover in the passive dispo- 
sition of life, laying under the forming hand of the Lord God, 
submissive as though it were unconscious clay in the hand of the 
potter, a beautiful type of the state of our Lord's virgin mother, 
when Gabriel proclaimed to her that she should bear a son in 
separateness from the manner of mortality, or after the law of 
fallen man. It is true, perfection is not exactly the measure of 
Mary's faith in the angel's message. She asked the same ques- 
tion in abstract, that David her father asked of the Lord; and 
like him was satisfied on being told, that " with God nothing shall 
be impossible." How meek, how quiet then was the heart of 
Mary, as we may know by her reply, in which submission to the 



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which in his obedience unto death, proclaim him 
the end of the law for justice, as well as the inno- 
cent blood for believers in God, by him, even God 
our Saviour. The knowledge of sin in our nature 
Christ understood as God, and not as man ; and the 
strength of sin being the law, (for sin is not imputed 
when there is no law,) the Holy One of Israel 
poured out his soul unto death, and became a 
curse in the judgment of the law; for it is written, 
"cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree." 
Alas! it seems that a tree was the object of entice- 
ment to transgression ; and by eating the fruit of 
one, and the only one interdicted, came most pain- 
ful knowledge, even the loss of good and the pre- 
sence of evil. It appears that when God sent the 
whole letter of the law to his chosen people by 
his servant Moses, that hanging is not an absolute 
enactment of the Lord God of Israel, as stoning 
with stones; but if it is done, the church adminis- 
ters everlasting punishment on the criminal; and 
the tree is named for a sign of the anathema of 
God. It is not difficult to understand the motive 
of the Jews in desiring Pilate to crucify the lowly 
Jesus. They understood the literality of that 

will of God is blended with readiness to receive the mystery, even 
the mystery of the Holy Ghost. 

I confess I can hardly reconcile the idea which some profess to 
entertain of woman, that she is inferior to man, with judgment of 
charity that they know any thing" about Christ savingly. The 
Jews I can bear with in this, as in every thing else that opposes 
Divine atonement; but Christians should remember Paul's words, 
" yc are not under the law, but under grace." 



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declaration, "he that is hanged is accursed of 
God;" and their arguments might settle upon this 
conclusion, that hanging Jesus as a malefactor 
would prove his character at once; for they chal- 
lenged the sacred sufferer to come clown from the 
cross, if he was the chosen of God, the King of 
Israel. Ah! there is no answer to this proposition. 
Had Jesus spoken to them then, He might have 
said, I now personify you, and not your King. I 
am your sin offering; and in that character I am the 
chosen of God, for the chastisement of Israel's peace 
is upon me, inasmuch as I am made a curse for sin, 
which is not in me but by imputation, and I die 
unto the thing which God hateth in you, even the 
privation of being, for sin reigneth unto death, 
except I die. Oh! thou fearful mystery ! reigning 
unto death, but for the death of Jesus! What 
knowest thou, oh! my soul, of this mystery? Re- 
demption from death by death, ignominious death, 
closing eyes that never knew sin, closing a mouth 
in which there was no guile, and draining the life 
blood from the heart of original holiness, while 
each sacred drop spoke of peace in a way that 
none but God can understand. I declare I know 
nothing but the literal fact, Jesus was crucified 
through weakness of the nature that (in part, L e. 
infirmity) he took; and he liveth by the power of 
God. I dare not say to the Jews at Pilate's bar, 
as Pilate did, " I am clear of the blood of this just 
man;" for I know that "the sin that dwelleth in 
me," to which (in my present state, by grace, I do 



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not consent,) cried out, "crucify him;" so instead of 
being innocent of the blood of this just man, I am 
involved in the guilt of the Jews. Sin in me cries 
out, "let him be crucified," let him be accursed of 
God; and the answer is, "I find no fault in him at 
all." Does this put to silence the sin in me? Nay, 
verily: its effect is to increase the wrath of my sin 
against the faultless prisoner of divine justice, as if 
it really knew its misery, and craved annihilation 
of its hard master, who pays its wages by the hand 
of despair, and that the wages are death. 

I am not at liberty to condemn the Jews, and it 
is not my calling to mourn for their sin, but to con- 
fess it on myself as a burden too heavy for me to 
bear, so hasten to the tomb where they lay the 
crucified, and bewail my guilt, and the iniquity of 
my sin, over the head and at the feet of the slain 
Lamb. My sorrow must have no allay. Jesus is 
dead; my sins have killed him. I know he was 
the innocent. I know lam the guilty. What have 
I done? Have I extinguished creation's light? 
Have 1 destroyed paradise itself, thai came through 
earth's agony in which she writhed till her poles 
upset, and she turned away from the sun, ashamed 
that her future defilement should chase him into 
darkness, and clothe him with sackcloth of hair? 
Yes. Paradise came through the flood, a mountain 
site lor the temple of her (Ion; in her shame she is 
to abide apart from all the earth, except One better 
than angels come in human flesh, with power of 
His glory, and pay the price of her redemption. 



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The price is life for life. Life lost must be redeem- 
ed with life found. God must have it. He found 
it in the man I have slain. I have robbed God of 
his glory, for here he is entombed in the silence of 
death ! Earth can stand no longer. Ah ! she 
heaves her desolate breast, and now fearfully she 
cries out. What are the accents ? Dust may re- 
turn to dust, but the bread of Heaven I may not 
retain. Another swell of earth's great travail has 
the thunder of infinite justice for her helper, and 
quaking mightily, earth gives the sign, and the 
glory of the Father is released by the instrumen- 
tality of an angel from Heaven. An angel joins 
earth in her quaking, and he rolls away the great 
stone from the tomb of Him that I killed; and what 
is the result? I (lost in Adam), did not seethe 
wonder ! Who saw it ? The keepers of that pri- 
son, who however, kept it not, are struck to the 
earth by the power that opened the tomb. Mary 
Magdalene was not there with her holy sisters in 
mourning, nor Peter, James, or the beloved John. 
Who then beheld the scene upon earth? None but 
the two angels* that sat in the tomb watching until 
woman came with her offering of perfume, to defy 
the power of death (even Satan), to intrude the 
scent of corruption upon the body of her Lord. 

The arrival of Mary Magdalene to the sacred spot 
is hailed by the heavenly guard of the holy linen 

* These two messengers I think, are the two last witnesses. 
See the Transfiguration, Luke ix. ; also the Ascension, Acts i. 



v. 



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(which the escaped had left behind in the reverend 
sepulchre of sinless humanity), as an opportunity 
of praise to God on the high key of life, born from 
earth's dead womb, higher and more glorious in 
its tone, than Gabriel could touch in the Christmas 
anthem, to the babe in Mary's virgin arms. 

"He is risen as he said." Oh ! who can truly 
believe the gospel of Christ, while they reject wo- 
man's vocation as the Saviour's harbour, whether 
at Bethlehem or in the garden, where was the 
tomb ? At the latter I behold her as a dew drop 
of sorrow in the presence of happy seraphs, until 
the gardener appears whose immortal glance is 
their discharge, and her transformation into his 
perfect image of love, that consents to obedience 
as better than sacrifice, and to hear mercy than to 
proclaim devotion at his feet. There is far more 
and deeper meaning in the word hear than we are 
ready to apprehend. I think it is obscured by 
adoption of our stammering language, which has 
more verbs than any, or all others. In the Lord's 
language, it is the word of command, and in ours 
we may have it so from God to us, and entreaty by 
us to God. In the case of Mary Magdalene, it is 
illustrated by obedience. The first opening of lips 
immortal (that are recorded), was devoted to Eve's 
representative in the garden. This was certainly 
our Lord's sovereign will. He was allied to wo- 
man only in his humanity, although He was 
David's son. David, the king, is the father of our 
Saviour only by the stem— the rib, that is called 



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Woman, because she is taken out of man, and God 
made of one two, and yet constituted them one, that 
he might seek a Godly seed, which could only be by 
the Holy Ghost, which is the breath, and translated 
moulded earth into a living soul at the beginning. 
Our blessed Saviour, then having no other harbour 
provided for him by the Father who sent him into 
our world, honoured woman as the mother of all 
living, at his resurrection from the dead, and first 
appeared to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had 
cast seven devils, the full number that can ever 
enter the weaker vessel, while man may receive as 
many thousands. The blessed Saviour at his resur- 
rection from the dead, perfectly illustrated that 
inspired declaration of prophetic praise, " Mercy 
and truth shall go before thy face." Mercy is the 
perfection of the divine character, and how lovely 
were its beams on the face of Jesus when he 
appeared to Mary Magdalene in the garden ! How 
he pitied that chief mourner ! "Woman why weep- 
est thou ?" Woman — this title intended her typi- 
cal relation to the head and glory of creation, the 
second Adam; but she knew it not, nor appre- 
hended the reality before her eyes; but, when he 
said Mary, woman dropped at his feet with the 
response of Rabboni, in mind perfectly subject and 
devoted to her Lord. 

The message delivered to Mary for the apostles 
exhibited truth going before his face, in that he 

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would perform his promise to them before he suf- 
fered ; and the fulfilment of his Word was declared 
to the deserters of his cross, and the fearful at his 
tomb, by the woman who tarried by the first, and 
sought to honour him at the last as All in all. In 
Mary's deliverance (which was complete to her), 
we see verified the inspired testimony of David 
the king, recorded in the twenty-fifth Psalm : "All 
the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto 
such as keep his covenant and his testimonies." 
Mary Magdalene had this happy experience, which 
came by the patience of love more than of hope, 
and tribulation had preceded and wrought them in 
her devoted heart. Doubtless this woman was an 
eye witness to the accomplishment of that prophecy 
to Zion, daughter of Jerusalem (the chosen seat of 
God): "Behold thy king cometh unto thee. He 
is just, and having salvation : lowly, and riding 
upon a colt the foal of an ass." The King of 
princes had previously confessed her before men, 
and had declared to her sister Martha, that Mary 
was sealed unto eternal life. I believe that Mag- 
dalene is the surname of this favoured, as Peter of 
Simon, and Paul of Saul. Magdalene signifies a 
tower. The church elected in the prevalent prince 
is called Tower of the flock, and Christ is her tower, 
whose name is given to her that her claim to his 
estate in Paradise may be valid in the days of her 
widowed condition, after the sufferings of death, 



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and in the victory of the grave. Mary Magda- 
lene was pronounced by our Lord in possession 
of the good part, or that good portion, which (said 
Jesus), shall not be taken away from her; and it is 
the sacred monitor of Martha that Mary had cho- 
sen, and truly might she say, 

"Thou art my portion, O Lord; 

I have said that I would keep thy words." 

Psalm cxix. 57. 
" Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, 

And afterward* receive me to glory. 

Whom have I in Heaven but Thee, 

And upon earth there is none 

That I desire beside thee." 

Mary acted out the testimony of Asaph: "It is 
good for me to draw near to God;" for she sat 
down at his feet, and in this posture Mary was a 
type, and I boldly refer to the testimony of blessing 
by a type. See Deut. xxxiii. 3. 

I do not believe one word about Mary's doubt- 
ing the resurrection of Jesus from the dead; but 
this idea I may hazard, that it is possible, that her 
faith did not reach to the full glory, when she re- 
tired from his burial, to prepare spices and oint- 
ments against the day when the close of the Sab- 
bath would permit a renewal of her humble labour 
of love for her Lord. Perhaps even in this I err; 
for Mary might only intend a continuation of her 
testimony. She might say, dead or alive, He is my 

* At his glorious Epiphany. 



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all ; and I praise him dead more than ever ; but as 
He was slain for my sins, the sight of my eyes is in 
that tomb ; and I cannot look up. I am dead to all, 
but my dead in that sepulchre ; in his death I am 
with him clean as he made me by his word, and 
that cannot pass away. No matter what the cere- 
monial law says, while death has my Lord's body 
in captivity, I am dead to it by the body of Christ. 
I will hasten to pour my odours over the Lamb. 

Now let us go back to the time when Mary's 
only brother lay in the grave. Survey her conduct. 
She sits still in the house where death had been 
four days before, and Mary might have said, I am 
not fit to go out to meet my Lord, for this is only 
the fifth day. But, when the words were spoken, 
" the Master calleth for thee/' how quick she 
obeyed his summons. She came out of Bethany, 
to meet Jesus ; and when she saw him, she fell 
down at his feet, and said unto him, "Lord, if thou 
hadst been here my brother had not died j" and 
no more. 

When Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead, 
the Jews (that came to Mary, while Lazarus slept), 
believed on Jesus ; but some went to Jerusalem 
and informed the Pharisees of this great, among 
many miracles that Jesus had done. 

Now was the turning point with the Jewish na- 
tion. They saw the result of such a mission. " If 
we let him alone, all the Jews will receive him as 



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the Messiah, and the Romans will come, and take 
our city, and make our nation wretched by disper- 
sion." The high priest then opens his mouth ; and 
proclaimed truth that he knew not, while he re- 
proached the council for their ignorance. Caiphas 
was a Sadducee, and he felt secure only in Jesus' 
perishing as death appeared to his view the end of 
man ; and by his speech I infer, that Caiphas sup- 
posed the murder he desired would so please God, 
that he would immediately restore, not only the 
Jews, but the ten tribes. Caiphas, though he wore 
the mitre and breast plate, had no knowledge of 
salvation, or of the righteousness that is of God. 
Had he truly believed in the resurrection of the 
dead, he would have trembled more than Felix, in 
view of the judgment to come ; for he did not pre- 
tend to deny that great power attended Jesus in 
his course. 

The prophecy of their nominal chief ecclesiastic 
had the desired effect. The death of Jesus seemed 
to the Jews as the decree of God, by which deliver- 
ance should come to Zion ; and they were given 
over to the delusion, that expediency is a necessity, 
and the necessity beyond law, so " from that day 
forth (Lazarus' resurrection) they took counsel to- 
gether to kill the Prince of Life." 

Poor Mary ! we may suppose that sorrow again 
visited her tender heart, when she discovered that 
her blessed Master was rejected with greater de- 

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rision than ever, by means of the miracle which 
brought her beloved brother from the dead ; and 
while she followed her precious Master about in 
the wilderness of Ephraim, she might dread the 
lapse of the days ; for Jesus had told them his suf- 
fering hour was at hand. 

Six days before the passover, the blessed one re- 
turned to Bethany. I think by invitation of the 
father of Judas lscariot, and at the solicitation of 
this man of bloods, who prepared a net for the steps 
of his lowly Master, whose life as well as doctrine 
offended his pride and covetousness. Judas Iscariot 
was a thief ; he was a religious thief, which is the 
worst of all : yea, he was a devil ! The holy minis- 
ter of the circumcision honoured Simon's house 
with his presence of sinless humanity, and sat 
down at the table in the character of a humble pil- 
grim, taking no notice of the conduct of Simon, 
until occasion of sympathy with the sorrows of 
another, called for a just rebuke. 

I view Simon's feast (made for Jesus) as a figure 
of the two opposites, or extremes of our probation, 
as the result makes manifest. On one side of the 
table sits the Saviour of the world, with Lazarus 
at his side. Mary prostrate at the feet of sovereign 
mercy; and the twelve apostles sitting as brothers, 
feasting upon the good things made ready for their 
master; for so it is written, and simple hearted 



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fishermen made themselves welcome, and Mr. 
gentleman Devil was at home.* 

Martha, representative of service and attend- 
ance that is in the world, although Jesus is present, 
is now handling dishes of earth or silver, arranging 
the table, and helping the guests to meat, &c. We 
believe she is anxious to do her best ; and that she 
is delighted to see her beloved brother a partaker of 
this feast, with her Lord. 

The feast went on very well. Even Judas Is- 
cariot raises no objection to the presence of a 
woman, while she serves in her allowed capacity. 
The distribution of savoury dishes of meat, pieces 
of the finest bread, cups of Lebanon wine, water 
for the hands (all hands) and napkins to wipe 
withal, is all proper employ for woman. I think 
Mary went out to get her alabaster box of ointment; 
and her absence is no grief to the disciples or to 
Martha ; for Mary was not a helper of temporal 
mirth. All but Jesus may be merry, and all but 
Martha may sit at ease. 

But, there is an interruption. I think 1 see the 
Divine Guest, as though he was ready for it. 
Mary entered the banqueting hall. In her hand 
she carried an alabaster box, filled with costly 
and choice perfume. She came, and stood behind 
her Lord ; and poured her odours on his sacred, 

* Four times in the gospel of John, Judas Iscariot is recorded 
"the son of Simon." 



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weary feet; and wiped them with her hair. Now 
I have this remark of my own to offer. Mary's 
tears, and not the ointment, were wiped with her 
hair. See Luke vii. 38. The spikenard was intend- 
ed as an alexipharmic by the ministring penitent, 
and every drop was consecrated to the sacred ob- 
ject of strengthening fibres more excellent than all 
the angelic forms above. But her tears. Ah ! 
the humility of Mary's new nature, would repre- 
sent her tears even too mean to wash off the dust 
of the earth that was upon Jesus' feet. She might 
think however, as a tribute of true penitence, her 
tears might clear the way, for her spikenard to 
take effect ; but they must be received back, and 
her hair became thus, the repository of earth's dust, 
that cleaved to the feet of her Lord, until she wept 
it away in Simon's house. The figure is truly 
beautiful ; and the matter is a standing fact. Wo- 
man was beguiled from the simplicity that is in 
Christ. Woman tempted Adam, and he hearkened 
to her voice, instead of the voice of the Lord God. 
For man's sake the ground is cursed; and its dust is 
the serpent's meat, all the days of his life, which 
extend to the last judgment, even the judgment of 
the dead — and death — and hell. The Judge is, 
the — (not a) seed of the Woman : i. e. our Lord is 
manifested in human flesh. " Is not this Joseph's 
son? Nay verily." — See Matt. i. 20. "Is not 
his mother called Mary? Yea, Christ had a 



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mother upon earth, and he walked upon earth in 
the fashion of a man and the form of servant. 
The mother of Christ was never beguiled from the 
simplicity that is in Christ." " A body hast thou 
prepared me ;" I receive the inspired declaration 
in a two fold sense. A body prepared to receive 
the divinity, that should be veiled with human 
flesh, which in coming forth saith to the God of 
Israel, Lo! I come to do thy will, God. Perfect 
obedience is the just demand of Israel's holy Lord 
God. Israel appears, and performs all in active 
working, in passive obeying, and thus becomes an 
acceptable sacrifice by offering up to God, what 
He took of earth, and upon earth, which was 
"The likeness of sinful flesh." The likeness is 
infirmity, or affliction. "Man is born to trouble as 
the sparks fly upward." Jesus grew up a tender 
plant; and was "a man of sorrows." The holy 
mother is a lovely sign of woman's original desti- 
nation, the temple of the Lord God ; and we must 
leave her till the day of Christ in glory. 

Mary Magdalene is presented to our view first, 
as Satan's bond slave, "led captive at his will." 

She is before us again, exactly the reverse. We 
see her the free servant of Christ, meekly devoted 
to his word. She is now the mother, the sister, 
and brother of Israel's Redeemer ; for she " be- 
lieves in him whom God hath sent." See Mark 
iii. 35; and John vi. 29. 



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You may ask me where I saw her first. I an- 
swer in the temple ; and I think it very probable 
indeed that our Lord's host in Bethany, was the 
very hypocrite who first spoke. See John viii. 4, 5. 
It was not hatred of the mortal sin, but hatred of 
the immaculate Lamb, that induced those serpents 
to bring this sinner into the temple of God, and 
set her in the midst of the judgment seat before 
Christ. It was early in the morning that our 
Lord came back from the Mount of Olives ; and 
it is written " that all the people came to him/' of 
whom the day preceding, the officers of the tem- 
ple had declared, "Never man spake like this 
man." "Who can stand before envy ?" The bless- 
ed Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground, 
or floor of the temple, " as though He heard them 
not." I think our Lord was praying to His 
Father. He might complain, 

" They that seek after my life lay snares for me: 
And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and 
imagine deceits all the day long. 

But I, as a deaf man heard not; 

And I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 

Thus I was as a man that heareth not, 

And in whose mouth there are no reproofs." 

The scribes and Pharisees continued their im- 
pudent interruption of the gospel ; and the spot- 
less Lamb lifted his meek face toward the miscre- 
ants and said : 

"He that is without sin, let Him first cast a 



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stone at her." " And again He stooped down, and 
wrote on the ground." And they all went out, 
one by one, leaving the woman in the temple. I 
believe the second writing was praise ; and the 
meek Saviour lifted up Himself in the power of 
sovereign grace, and asked the woman, " where are 
those thine accusers ? Hath no man condemned 
thee ?* Neither do I (the Lord) condemn thee :" 
then came the word that cleansed, " go and sin no 
more ! !" 

When Mary came to anoint our Lord's feet, 
she was saved by grace, through faith, and that 
not of herself, it was the gift of God. She came 
then, not possessed with devils, but perfected in 
love : she was a mourner in Zion, and our Lord 
knew her state ; but Simon the Pharisee, knew 
her only as a sinner. It is only God that saith, " I 
will remember their sins and their iniquities no 
more." Mary knew that Simon was her enemy ; 
but she feared him not. She asked no leav^ to 
honour her Lord. 

She brake the box : — the contents she poured on 
Jesus' feet. The effect (of this exhibition of per- 
fect devotion to the Lamb,) upon the disciples of 
Jesus and his host, was murmur, repining, disgust. 
In the dark heart of Judas Iscariot, it stirred the 
whirpool of Satan, wrath and envy. This chief of 

* See the last page of this book. 



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hypocrites muttered his pretences under guise of 
care for the poor; and he exclaimed, "why is this 
waste," &c. ? Fellow mortal ! every slight word that 
you utter against paying respect to a poor saint, you 
are guilty of this sin, and though not blotted from 
the traitor's history, it is added to your account. 

Judas Iscariot was a thief. He carried the bag, 
and bare what was put therein. 

The Blessed One pitied his humble, weeping 
Lamb ; and he delayed not to vindicate her conduct. 
To her he said, " Go in peace." It was then that 
Heaven sounded in his voice that to Mary was the 
sealing of her soul to eternal life; and in the 
traitor's ear accented his desert, condemnation to 
despair. Happy woman ! thou hast prepared the 
person of the King to enter Jerusalem to-morrow. 
Thy odours Mary, poured on those sacred feet, 
now fill the house of Simon. All might have 
shared in the joy and gladness of the perfume ; but 
they rejected ; and only the Master confesses to 
thy offering. Thou hast come aforehand to anoint 
the King of Zion for his burial. He will retain it ; 
and as he decends the Mount of Olives, the hum- 
ble beast that bears His holy person, shall tread 
the dust for Him, of whom the church will say, 

41 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness 
Like pillars of smoke ? 
Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, 
With all powders of the merchant ?" 



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Not a second voice was ever heard to rival the type,* 

u While the king sitteth at the table, 
My spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof." 

" This woman hath wrought a good work on me." 
It is indeed very sorrowful for Jerusalem, that her 
King is anointed for his burial, and that she in figure 
of a cruel adulteress hunteth the precious life. Her 
priests within her are roaring lions : her prophets 
ravening wolves. Instruments of cruelty are in 
their habitation. In their anger they slew the 
Man ; and in their self will they digged down a 
wall. Their anger is fierce, and their wrath cruel: 
they are sentenced by the Holy Ghost to division 
in Jacob, and scattering in Israel, until the times 
of the Gentiles are fulfilled. 

" 0, my people, they which lead thee, cause thee 
to err !" 

I am very sure that my simple belief in the lite- 
ral meaning of the Scriptures and their literal fulfil- 
ment, is supported by strong columns of facts that 
are witnesses, even on ground of profane history, 
to the truth of God, so far as we have come toward 
the judgment day. Now that day hasteth greatly 
in our time. The signs of it are so potent (just 
now perplexity), that few pretend to deny; yea it is 
a current saying, " something is coming," others, 
" a great crisis is forming," others, " the spiritual 

* Canticles i. 12. 



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war is just at its acme," others, the Lord Jesus 
Christ is about to appear in glory, burn up the 
world, and reign over spiritual Jacob, Israel, and 
Zion, in new heavens and upon a new earth, &c. 

Now I am compelled to fight or to fly. And I 
prefer the former, (not that I have any power,) for 
I see the deep ditch is open round the field outside, 
and I dare not go out: in the field I see stones that 
are burnt : some of these I will try to dig out, and 
roll them against the robbers of the absent Jew, 
my only friend upon earth or in Heaven. 

Alas! the day! The first burnt stone in the 
ploughed field, that I can see among rubbish, is a 
diamond with Judah's name inscribed upon it. I 
cannot dislodge it from the heap. It is sealed up 
in judgment, cries one in my hearing. I am atten- 
tive, say on: "What shall the receiving of them be 
but life from the dead ?" Ah ! now I begin to under- 
stand, and I will not try to imitate David, but 
endeavour to follow David's Lord, who never 
threw stones, but He did speak in parables, and 
the literal was in their fulfilment at the last day. 
The heavens have received the person of Jesus, 
until the times of restitution (arrive), which God 
hath spoken for by the mouth of all his holy pro- 
phets since the world began; and then Jesus Christ 
is sent again. Now I desire to know how he is 
sent the second time. This is it in plain terms: 
" A stone cut out of the mountain without hands 



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falls upon an image that is composed of iron, brass, 
clay, silver, and gold, breaks them all to pieces, and 
they become as the chaff of the summer threshing 
floor, and the wind carried them away, that no 
place was found for them, and the stone that smote 
the image became a great mountain and filled the 
whole earth. And the prophet Daniel said, " The 
dream is certain, for it is from God, and the inter- 
pretation is sure, for God hath decreed it to come 
to pass hereafter." 

Our blessed Lord spake a parable in the tem- 
ple, of " a householder that planted a vinyard, 
and digged a wine press in it, hedged it round 
about, built a tower and let it out to husbandmen, 
and went into a far country." Now here is our 
strong hold, says the anti-Millenarian, you cannot 
drive us out. The Jews will never be restored. 
My answer for the present is, that if you stay in 
the parable you choose a dark habitation; but if 
you were in Christ, which is Messiah, you might 
in his light see light, and understand that scribes 
and Pharisees were the subjects of rebuke, but the 
Jewish nation are not the husbandmen. These 
are mitred heads, and wear robes, long robes. 
When our Lord spake, the 20th verse of Matt. 
xxi., he asked a question, he did not pronounce 
judgment; and persons who embrace this parable 
as a dear friend to their system of " Judah thrown 



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over the bay, &c," seem to forget, hark! "Father 
forgive them, for they know not what they do." 

I beg of you to read the 42d verse impartially, 
and take heed lest you come into the condemnation 
of those wicked men (see 41st), who reject the 
heir to Zion, and seize on the inheritance. The 
beloved Son is, was, and is to cpme, the royal Jew, 
and it is the human nature that the heavens must 
receive, the divine is in Heaven, (our Father ever- 
lasting) forever. 

If you will please to examine the response of our 
Lord to the testimony of the priests and elders, I 
am sure you may learn that scribes and Pharisees 
are characters rejected from the kingdom at the 
second advent of Messiah, when the people that 
fell on him and were broken shall be received as 
life from the dead, and those upon whom he falls 
at his return shall be ground to powder.* Let us 
never overlook the 42d verse, which manifests our 
Saviour the head stone of the corner, which is Zion, 
and he is the nail and battle bow — the lion of 
Judah, that will roar mightily on his habitation, in 
his coming to judgment; and this coming is for the 
redemption of his habitation, the tabernacle of 
David, that fell in Solomon spiritually, by Reho- 
boam diminished literally, and given up to Gentiles 



* The toes of the image. Not the Jewish nation at all. God 
forbid ! 



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for Manasseh's sin, has lain prostrate and desolate, 
without prince or king, temple, altar, and service, 
a monument of the truth of literal prophecy. 

Jerusalem is now the captive that she was in the 
days of pagan Rome, when her gates were closed 
against her children, and in them she spiritually 
wandered to and fro, while literally she sat as a 
widow in prison, and in prison to remain until she 
had paid the very last mite. This prison has long 
been called the Mosque of Omar; and there Jeru- 
salem mourns. She is chained by fetters of her 
own making, assisted by the Devil, to whose son 
she paid a price. What price? price of what? 0! 
Jerusalem! thy fetters are soon to be proved, 
whether of brass and iron only, or whether of 
horses and hoofs; and repentance is hid from the 
eyes of thy God. God will never change or alter 
his purposes of election nor his decrees of judg- 
ment. They stand fast in him, and are not subjects 
of any variableness, neither a shadow of turning. 
Jerusalem! thou hast rejected thy King that 
came to thee in the name of the Lord. Thy sins 
have separated thee from thy God; and the token 
of thy separation is the ascension of thy Shiloh to 
the throne of the Father. There he sitteth, ex- 
alted to be, what? Prince and Saviour? Yes. 
Christ on the right hand of God, visible to no eye 
of flesh, is Prince Jesus, the heir to David's throne; 
and he is personally an exile, and his spirit is 



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grieved. He is now Jeremiah (exaltation of God), 
and his Lamentations are written in the book. 

The things of thy peace, are now hid from thee, 
city of praise. It is sorrowful to contemplate thy 
horizon covered with the night that brings out the 
beasts of the forest, to prey upon thy vitals. And 
must the double cup yet be put in thy hand, Je- 
rusalem, and thou wring out the very dregs thereof 
(the wrath of the Lamb) and drink them? Yes. — 
And why? Because thou wilt, thou wilt poison 
thyself with the deadly mixture of the dragon and 
the asp, and must suffer the second death, except 
thou drink that strong purge, the fury of the Lord. 
Thou must drink both — the first is poison, the other 
brings thee health and cure, and it is for the name- 
sake of Him who came first to thee, Jerusalem, as, 

Isaiah (salvation of the Lord), and ascended 

Jeremiah (exaltation of God), and thou knowest 
not that he is about to stand up 

Ezekiel (strength of God) and will descend. 

Daniel (judgment of God) 

Jerusalem, Jesus of Nazareth is 

Joel (God commandeth) and 

Malachi (the messenger of God.) 

Jesus of Nazareth is 

Michael (who is like God?) 

The simple hearted, that believe on Jesus Christ, 
that his testimony is the soul of prophecy, are like 
babes weaned from the milk of personal or rather 



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individual interest in the gospel (I know in whom 
I have believed), and are drawn from the breasts 
of promises that cherish faith, hope, and perseve- 
rance, in our spiritual race from the city of destruc- 
tion to the mansions of rest; and their highest 
delight centres in the joy of the Lord, which 
is Israel's strength, even the glory of Israel's 
King. Such believers of the gospel, are jealous for 
the honour of the Word that was made flesh, and 
love the testimony of His glorious appearing to 
build Zion: they wait for the Son from Heaven, 
believing that he only can set glory in the land of 
the living, at his personal return to Zion. Such 
persons are ready to apprehend Christ in his true 
kingship, " a priest upon his throne, which is the 
title given to Jerusalem, when she answers to her 
name, Vision of Peace. The seventeenth verse of the 
third chapter of Jeremiah, is received according to 
the words as they are written, without difficulty, 
by the true lovers of that name, which is in truth, 
"the name of the Lord," even Saviour and Christ, 
or the Holy One of Israel, and the eighteenth verse 
is a golden link in the chain of sovereign grace, 
which was mentioned by our Lord in the 10 c. of 
John. See v. 16. Suppose we should now care- 
fully examine this chain, while we are favoured to 
have a little space allowed us to prepare for the 
day of Christ. 

Two considerations must be present, as we take 
the chain in our hands to examine it. 



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1. We are now (at best) members of the lowest 
school; and 2. we are very deficient in regard to 
learning our lessons well, and prone to forget what 
we hear, as well as criminally neglectful of our 
work. God be merciful to us sinners. Jesus, 
thou Son of David, have mercy on us. Now let us 
survey the chain of sovereign grace; and may we 
not wonder and perish, but believe and live forever. 

" Blessed be the Lord God of Shem. Gen. 
Blessed be the name of God forever. Daniel. 
Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his 
place.* I am the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and 
of Jacob." 

And the Lord blessed Abraham. 

And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, 
that God blessed his son Isaac. 

And God appeared unto Jacob and blessed him, 
and called his name Israel. And God said unto 
him, I am God Almighty, be fruitful and multiply. 

"A nation and a company of nations 
Shall be of thee : 

And kings shall come out of thy loins. 
And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, 
To thee will I give it ; 
And to thy seed after thee 
Will I give the Land." 

This end of the chain is upon earth. 

" Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." 

* Ezekiel iii. 12. 



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" I have said I will bring you up out of the afflic- 
tion of Egypt, unto a land flowing with milk and 
honey." 

" Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even 
my first born." This is a beautiful link in the 
chain of sovereign grace. Alas ! the descendants of 
Jacob do not apprehend the divinity of their elec- 
tion, that it is not only of God, but in the Lord 
God of Shem, that Noah praised. The great 
secret of God is revealed in the glorious gospel of 
Christ. Simeon and Anna understood it. They 
received it, and blessed the Lord God of Shem. 

"I am the Almighty God," said Adonai to Abra- 
ham, when he promised the land for an everlasting 
possession to Abraham, and his seed after him, 
which (called in Isaac), is Christ Jesus our Lord. 
We are to note this link in the chain as believers 
in the gospel, and honour the human nature of our 
Lord not as Abraham's seed, but as the Father of 
Israel in the bosom of God. We are to under- 
stand that the Lord is the Word, and the Word 
was made flesh, which is not merely a great mys- 
tery, but the mystery of God, the mystery of the 
Father, the mystery of Christ. Let us adore this 
sacred mystery, and confess that in the human 
nature of Christ, we behold the true Israel, whom 
God called out of Egypt unto a land flowing with 
milk and honey, and that the election of Jacob as 
representative of the Supplanter that drove out the 



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man, is divine in the Prince whose power is with 
God over all, and is blessed forever, the Amen. 
It should never be forgotten by us, that the chain 
of sovereign grace exhibits not a single link that 
encourages human frailty. No. Sin is the cause, 
and God abhors the effect. Sovereign grace is by 
Him who put away the cause of human frailty, 
and the effect is destroyed. What a word is that, 
"life and immortality brought to light in the gos- 
pel;" by whom? By the Word made flesh. By 
Him who is the dwelling place of God's elect in all 
generations. To the Word (not made flesh till 
after the law had thundered its terrors from Sinai), 
Moses (the servant of God to bring the law, but 
not the servant of the circumcision for the truth of 
God, to magnify and fulfil it,) addressed his con- 
fession of the Deity, and he said, 

" From everlasting, even to everlasting", 
Thou art God." 

Moses knew not Christ after the flesh, although he 
confessed to his prophetic office in which the Lord, 
the God of Israel would condescend to raise him 
up unto them; for Moses was hid in the cleft Rock, 
and covered with the spirit when the back parts of 
the glory of the Lord were about to appear; the 
hand was lifted up, but Moses was hid as before, 
and we may know that in this situation, Moses was 
dead to the flesh as flesh, and beheld Christ in the 
Spirit, the quickening spirit of Israel, God's elect. 



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When Moses came to our Lord upon Mount Tabor, 
he spake with Jesus as priest, the priest who would 
accomplish the divine atonement, that is the end of 
the law as the letter that killeth, and that the man- 
ner was death. Moses then certainly knew not 
Christ after the flesh, although he spake with him 
on that sacred subject, for Christ after the flesh was 
David's son, and not Aaron's. How amazing the 
dulness of our scripture scholarship must be in the 
sight of angels, that we just know Christ after the 
flesh and no more. Now this is fact, if our eyes 
are not opened wide enough to behold that glorious 
link in the chain of sovereign grace which brought 
Heaven to earth, and carried earth up to Heaven, 
even the everlasting priesthood of Christ, the Son 
of God, and that this connecting heaven to earth in 
him never can be visible to the eye that is but half 
open on the glory of the Word made flesh, as the 
only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, 
which glory in the chain represents the priest in 
two natures, constituted a Mediator, who can sus- 
tain that office only as the King of Israel, even that 
people to whom the law was given on Mount 
Sinai. If the priesthood is everlasting, so is the 
kingship, and the latter is in counsel with the for- 
mer, anointed with the oil of joy above his fellows, 
(reader, I say it with reverence), the Father and 
the Holy Ghost, because in the manifestation of 
God in the flesh, he brings glory to both, and the 



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unity of being accepteth worship and praise by and 
through him, the King of Israel, who saith, I am 
the Lord, that is, my name and my glory will I 
not give to another, neither my praise to graven 
images. The kingship of Messiah is sanctified by 
his priesthood, for the sake of his elect, as he spake 
to the Father, while supplicating the glorification 
of his manhood, that he might set up the kingdom 
of David in righteousness, peace, and joy of the 
Holy Ghost, and give it to the people of the saints 
of the Most High, that God may be glorified in 
Israel. 

The next link in the chain of sovereign grace 
("the purpose of God according to election"), is 
the choice of God of a seat for the government of 
this holy kingdom. Question : Is the link spiritual, 
or literal, or both ? Every eye must now rest 
upon "the King in his beauty." We are to make 
our conclusions by his person. Is the King of 
Israel their Creator and Holy One ? God is a spirit. 
The King of Israel is David's son. David was the 
son of Jesse. David as a prophet said, "The Lord 
is King forever and ever, the heathen are perished 
out of his land." 

Jeremiah and Ezekiel report the name of Israel's 
everlasting king, David, and his office, servant of 
the Lord. 

Daniel names the great prince, (that receives the 
dominion and glory of a kingdom that is everlast- 



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ing,) the Ancient* of days, and that he is one like 
unto the Son of man. Daniel afterward had a 
vision that represented the reign of Anti-Christ, 
and the time of trouble such as never was: in which 
time the great Prince of the covenant standeth up 
for the children of the people of Daniel, and he is 
called Michael. This name (or title) was commu- 
nicated to Daniel by "one like the appearance of a 
man, who touched the prophet and strengthened 
him." I know of no other mode of interpretation 
than the literal, upon the face of original prophecy, 
concerning the ruler in the kingdom of God; and I 
am conscious of my own insufficiency in the matter 
of application, beyond the bounds of literality. I 
therefore confess that I believe the King of Israel is 
God manifested in the flesh, and man justified in 
the spirit, seen of angels as the Son of God upon 
David's throne, preached unto the Gentiles as the 
Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe 
in his name Immanuel, and received up into glory 
as the blessed and only Potentate, the King of 
kings, the Lord of lords, who only hath immor- 
tality dwelling in the light (God), that no man can 
approach unto, whom no man can see, unto whom 
be glory forever, Amen. All this is the wisdom of 
God in a mystery, even the hidden life that is 
without beginning and without end. Now, I ask, 

* See verse 22 of chap. vii. of Daniel. 
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"who hath ascended up where he was before?" 
And again, I ask, "who hath known the mind of 
the Lord, that he may instruct him ?" 

The first principle that is laid before us in the 
holy Scriptures, concerning IsraePs adoption, is 
love. "I have loved thee with an everlasting 
love, therefore with loving kindness have I drawn 
thee." The accompaniment of sovereignty with 
this principle elicits another which involves the 
divine glory, and renders a transfer impossible. 
This is Truth. " I will never leave thee nor for- 
sake thee." Thus the covenants, both of law and 
grace, pertain to the children of Israel, with the 
promises of glory that comes by grace only, and is 
sovereign grace secured to them forever in Christ 
their king. It is a plain and undeniable fact, that 
the King has been rejected; and we know the 
consequences as well as the cause; but how 
striking is the representation of the Holy Ghost 
concerning the grief, the mourning and lamentation 
of the house of David, Levi, &c, and the inhabi- 
tants of Jerusalem, in that day which we look for, 
and many believe is very near, even the Lord's 
day, on the very account of Calvary. Now we 
know that neither their rejection or repentance can 
affect a single decree of God. The effect is on 
them. Hear him in his Word: "I will go and 
return to my place, till they acknowledge their 
offence." Hosea. " Israel, thou hast destroyed 



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thyself, but in me is thy help." Hosea. "I the 
Lord change not, therefore ye* sons of Jacob are 
not consumed." Mai. 

I have written so much on this subject and pub- 
lished likewise, that it is but repetition to enlarge 
this book upon it. My endeavour now shall be 
directed to the seat of Christ's kingly government, 
as priest upon his throne. 

Christian, dost thou believe the testimony of 
Gabriel? Was it literal? Has it been fulfilled? 

44 Thou shalt bring forth a Son 
And shalt call his name Jesus." 

This came to pass, according to the declaration of 
Gabriel. 

44 And the Lord God shall give unto him 
The throne of his father David." 

Christian, where is David's throne? It is the seat 
of government for " the Son of the highest" over 
the house of Jacob. Where is it ? 

" The Lord's throne is in Heaven, and heaven 
is the throne of the Lord. True. But where is 
David's throne? I read in the Scriptures that the 
throne of David was set up over Israel and over 

* Among the heresies of the present time there is one truly 
ridiculous. It is this: saints are Jacob, and the church Israel. I 
beg to say, that the sons of Jacob may be Christians; but Chris- 
tians cannot be sons of Jacob. We must confess to literality in 
some respects, or we have no Saviour. Was Christ the son of 
Mary? 



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Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba; and all the 
tribes of Israel said to him, " Behold, we are thy 
bone and thy flesh, and also in time past, when 
Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest 
out and broughtest in Israel; and the Lord said to 
thee, thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou 
shalt be captain over them. And David was 
anointed king over Israel at Hebron, by all the 
elders; and he reigned at Hebron seven years and 
six months. And then he took Jerusalem's corner, 
even the fort of the city, and he called it the city of 
David. I believe the son of Jesse was inspired to 
call the city he built on that heap, "the city of 
David," and that he knew by faith the well be- 
loved, who is the rod from the Stem, and that He 
shall establish Zion. David pitched a tabernacle 
for the ark of the Lord, and brought the ark to 
Zion, and placed it in the tabernacle that he made, 
and David was great and strong, and the Lord of 
hosts was with David, and he reigned in Jerusalem 
thirty-three years, and died in a good old age, and 
was renowned at his death for riches and honour. 
Let us now examine the Scriptures further con- 
cerning David and David's throne; for David's 
throne is the seat of government for Christ, when- 
ever he reigns over the house of Jacob. We will 
go first to the Acts of the Apostles; for in that book 
is recorded our Lord's ascension, even Jesus, to 
whom is promised David's throne. James^ an 



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apostle of Christ, sends us back to one of the pro- 
phets of old time; and we are told by the Lord of 
David, who in the fulness of time is David's son 
and heir to David's throne, that he " will raise up 
the tabernacle of David that is fallen down/' and 
close up the breaches thereof, (see the beautiful 
link in the chain of sovereign grace, Jeremiah hi. 
17, 18, and Ezekiel xxxvii. 19, 21-28), and will 
raise up his ruins, and will build it (£. e. the taber- 
nacle of David), as in the days of old,* and the 
Gentiles that are called Christian, (and they are but 
a remnant in that day), shall come to the light of 
Zion and confess that the King of Israel is " God 
of the whole earth," for the God of Heaven is 
Israel's Holy One. See Isaiah liv. 5. 

Is this account of David's throne literally true? 
We know what is intended by a throne. Shall I 
cite the signification as from the learned. " The 
seat whereon sovereign princes usually sit to re- 
ceive the homage of their subjects. Princes, kings, 
and emperors, that have mortality stamped upon 
their persons, are not visible to the eyes of their 
subjects in common with other men. The Presi- 
dent of the United States is not always sitting 
(personally) on his executive chair. But the seat 
is their exclusive possession; and whenever it is 

* Amos ix. 11. Acts xv. 15, 16. 
G* 



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occupied, in the literal sense, the personal presence 
of the dignitary honours the seat. 

Now then, it is written, that " the people that 
walked in darkness have seen a great light ;" 
they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, 
upon them hath the light shined ; for 

" Unto us a child is born, 
Unto us a Son is given:" 

And the government shall be upon his shoulders, 
and his name shall be called The Wonderful,* 

" The Counsellor^ The Mighty God,* 
The Everlasting Father,§ 
The Prince of Peace."H 

Of the increase of his government and peace 

" There shall be no end, 

Upon the throne of David, 

And upon his kingdom, 

To order it, and to establish it 

With judgment (with discernment and equity), 
And with justice (uprightness and faithfulness), 
From henceforth, even forever." 

The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. 
This prophetic song is no private or selfish matter. 
It came not by the will or conclusions of Isaiah. 
He is the organ of God, and upon his tongue 

* Isaiah xxviii. 29 ; Daniel viii. 13. 

t Jer. xxxii. 19; Heb. vi. 17. 

X Psalms xlv. 1-7 ; Isaiah i. 24, 30, 29. 

§ Isaiah lxiii. 16; Jer. iii. 19. 

|| Mic. v. 5 ; Acts v. 31 ; Gen. xlix. 10. 



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(prepared by fire of the Sovereign Altar,) the Holy- 
Ghost played the melody of heaven upon earth, 
even the complete unity of all glory, Christ upon 
David's throne. 

"From henceforth, even forever." v. 7. 

N. B. The expression of henceforth, I think de- 
notes the time of setting up the kingdom of God 
upon earth. Hence means from now, and forth 
means onward. It is the date ; and whether 1847, 
or 1850, or 1857, or 1866, or 1917, have any or- 
thodoxy in their figures, respecting the return of 
our Lord in character of the Refiner's fire, to cleanse 
his sanctuary, (spiritually and literally, or literally 
by the Spirit) I know not, nor do I think it my 
privilege to guess, but this I know (by the Scrip- 
tures — otherwise I know nothing) that my blessed 
Jesus will come back from his journey, immediately 
after the ascension of his two witnesses, even in 
the same hour ; and if the reader of this testimony 
cannot make it out at the 13 — 19 v. of Rev. xi. c. 
please turn to the fourth verse of the fourteenth of 
Zechariah, and observe that the feet of the Lord 
upon the Mount of Olives are too heavy with his 
power for earth to bear, and the great earthquake 
mentioned in Rev. xi. 13. rends the mount of Olives 
in four pieces, and our Lord comes down into the 
valley of Jehosaphat, to judge the infidel armies, 
where he is represented sitting to judge all the 
heathen round about — these I think are intended 
in Ez. xxxviii. 



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In 1831, I published Mr. Wolff's letters to the 
churches in England and Ireland, on the second 
advent. 

In 1844 (Feb. 18th,) I have a hope that the De- 
liverer will come to Zion in 1847. I hope he will, 
and I am expecting to hear tidings that will make 
ears tingle, and I believe the ninth chapter of Isaiah 
is one of the reporters of the day of trouble, 
that is, Jacob's trouble out of which he shall be 
saved. The warrior whose battles are in blood, I 
call Apollyon ; but the burning, and fuel of fire, is 
his destruction. "Not by might nor by power save 
of my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." Persons who 
are wedded to their own (supposed) wisdom, may 
pretend that the arrangement of this section of 
prophecy is inconsistent with reason, and is a mass 
of contradiction. If you please, or if you do not 
please, I shall hazard one saying to suit your case, 
" the foolishness (as the skeptic may say) of God, is 
stronger than men," says the babe in Christ. Un- 
happy soul, whose faith (or belief) stands in the 
wisdom of men : happy fool ! whose faith stands in 
the power of God. The things of God knoweth no 
man, but the Spirit of God. The Spirit (in the called 
ones,) searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of 
God. See 1st Cor. i. and ii. c. 

I feel very comfortable in looking at the sixth 
and seventh verses of the ninth chapter of Isaiah. 
It is true they contain a testimony that (apparently) 



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is separate from the other nineteen verses ; but we 
are not at liberty to make any conclusions on the 
sacred prophecies of ourselves, as we are "not suf- 
ficient to think any thing of ourselves ;" and to 
cavil at the sight we take through a glass darkly, of 
visions presented originally by the Holy Ghost, is 
hardly to fall short of blasphemy ; therefore, our 
safety is in prayer, and waiting upon the Lord for 
instruction. " If any man, or any woman feel that 
they lack wisdom, let them ask of God, who giveth 
liberally, and upbraideth not. But let them ask in 
faith/' &c, that is, believing that he who ordained 
prayer as the means of obtaining good and perfect 
gifts from God, is pleading the merits of his pre- 
cious blood for us, that the Spirit may "help our 
infirmities, because we know not what we should 
pray for as we ought ;" and when the poor and 
contrite spirit of a believer groans being burdened 
with a sense of unworthiness to ask, or to receive, 
the Spirit of Christ then maketh intercession for 
that believer, with groanings that cannot be ut- 
tered. It is written that Jesus groaned in himself 
when he came to Lazarus' grave. Jesus Christ, 
the same yesterday, to-day and forever, is far more 
deeply touched with the feeling of our infirmities, 
than with the feeling of desire in us, when we pray, 
because the former induces that trembling at his 
word, which refers him to Gethsemane ; and we 
may depend on this, that Satan trembles when the 



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believer trembles on his knees ; for Satan knows 
the Lord is looking upon that spirit, and upon that 
heart to revive it — to strengthen it — to engage it 
more entirely in the search after the pearl of great 
price. Just as Christ reached out his hand to Peter, 
crying " Lord save or I perish," so will his Spirit 
reach to us the aid we implore in our present low 
and sinking state, if we ivait, (although our eyes 
seem to fail,) at the throne of grace. I do believe 
that the called ones in this time of perplexity, are 
thrown back into the dispensation that preceded 
the personal trial and rejection of Christ ; and as 
the adulteress that hunteth the precious life is now 
without — now in the streets, lying in wait at every 
corner, there is no path safe for them but in the 
print of Mary Magdalene's feet stepping after her 
Lord, till they have laid him in the tomb ; and then 
retiring to their own homes. 

! they must now keep close to his person, and 
wash his weary feet with their tears, for thy sacred 
feet must soon travel again the dark path without 
a Peter, James, or John, &c, and Pilate be Herod's 
friend, although jealous of Herod, they are now at 
enmity among themselves — one a Roman, the other 
an Idumean, both wearing Caesar's uniform in 
1844, &c. 

Am I dark to the reader on this page? then thou 
art not a Literalist, for the signs of the times are 
drawn upon facts, stubborn and unyielding to the 



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efforts made by mouth, or pen, or type, .... 
yea, facts that were once quickened in the womb 
of the mystery of iniquity, and portrayed in pro- 
phecy, prefaced with "it shall come to pass in the 
last days," are brought forth in the 19th century, 
infant monsters nursed by the mother of witch- 
crafts, stamped with the likeness of the evil man 
that walketh in the ways of darkness, and speaketh 
forward things 

HHP^'To the Law and to the testimony." 
Before I formed thee I knew thee, and before thou 
earnest forth I sanctified thee, said the Word of the 
Lord to Jeremiah, son of the High Priest in the 
days of Josiah (the fire of the Lord), king of Judah. 
Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched the 
prophet's mouth, and said to him, "Behold I have 
put my words in thy mouth." 

" See I have this day set thee over the nations, 
and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull 
down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build 
and to plant." Now, persons who stumble at the 
great proclamation in Isaiah ix. 6, 7, will be 
offended and scandalized by this testimony of the 
son of Hilkiah, who actually announces the com- 
mission of Christ ("that prophet that should come 
into the world,") to judge the nations, sitting upon 
David's throne. 

"Thus saith the Lord to his Anointed, to Cyrus 
whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations 



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and kings before him, &c.:" "to open the two 
leaved gates (the first and second ward (Acts xii.) 
were past, and then they came to the iron gate 
which opened without hands), and the gates shall 
not be shut. I will go before thee ; I will give 
thee the treasures of darkness, &c." "He shall 
build my city. He shall let go my captives, not 
for price or reward, saith the Lord of hosts." 

The date of this proclamation must be placed 
upon the records of one of the four kings that were 
cotemporaries with the course of Isaiah; and the 
last is Hezekiah, who fell asleep and was gathered 
to his fathers, at least one hundred years before the 
destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, king 
of Babylon : so the foretelling of building the city 
while it stood, and the temple while it exhibited 
the pattern of the Spirit, has no more wisdom in it 
to the natural view of man, than the exposure of 
our Lord's birth-day upon the dark page of a con- 
federacy with the powers of hell, that elicits the 
wrath of the Lamb. 

In the second year of Darius the king, the house 
of God lay waste, yet Zechariah the prophet de- 
clares, that the Lord is raised up out of His holy 
habitation; and all flesh is commanded to be silent 
before Him. The eighth verse of the second chap- 
ter exhibits the mission of Christ in His glory, as 
already taken place, and the words "hath sent me 
to the nations which spoiled you," seem to contra- 



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diet the seventh, wherein Zion is represented as in 
league with the daughter of Babylon, and is bid to 
deliver herself. In the ninth chapter, is represent- 
ed the overthrow of the Gentiles, and the Lord's 
protection of Judah, and she is bid to rejoice 
greatly in the coming of his King; but the next 
verse proclaims that He will cut off the chariot 
from Ephraim, (who in Darius' reign had no cha- 
riot, i. e. throne) and the horse and the battle bow 
should be cut off from Jerusalem (in Darius' reign 
what horse and battle bow had Jerusalem ?) and 
peace should be on the Gentiles by the Word of 
the Lord. In the tenth verse the prisoners of 
Zion are sent forth out of the pit wherein is no 
water (I think our far West, when the rivers are 
dried up,) and the prisoners of hope are sum- 
moned to Zion, or the strong hold of Zion : then 
the Lord declares war against the Gentiles, de- 
nominated Greece, and fills the battle bow with 
Ephraim, and makes Judah as the stones of a 
crown lifted up as an ensign upon his land. 

This prophecy can do us no good (but it may 
rather be a savour of death,) except we believe in 
the personal reign of Christ upon David's throne 
over all the house of Jacob, or the twelve tribes of 
the children of Israel. " Gather out the stones," 
ye called ones, and then " lift up a standard for 
the people." Go through the Gates (the Advent 
in Bethehem — the Advent from Heaven — the first 



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to suffer by the iron kingdom, the last to dash it to 
pieces like a potter's vessel,) prepare the way of 
the people, cast up, cast up the high way, L e. open 
the road for the kingdom throne to pass in testi- 
mony of Jesus, the soul of prophecy. 

Now there is no necessity laid upon us, that we 
should be ignorant any more, because we have 
been ignorant hitherto, of the great things that 
God hath decreed concerning His declarative glory, 
in reigning by the man, Christ Jesus our Lord, 
upon David's throne. We have the sacred books 
of inspiration. Let us wash our hands, take up 
the book, go and sit down close by Mary at the 
Master's feet ; and humbly cry, " Teach me thy 
paths, teach me thy statutes, teach me thy judg- 
ments;" and His love answers, " I will guide thee 
with mine eye, the spirit of truth." " He shall take 
of mine and show it unto you." Glory to his grace, 
we may come even at this late hour, the eleventh 
— there is not a moment of the mercy-seat oblation, 
that does not embrace the words "now is the 
accepted time." Come to the Oracle, the whole 
word of God, and inquire for Jesus. Let his tes- 
timony, the gospel preached in Eden, proclaimed 
by Enoch (Jude), declared to Noah, published to 
Abraham, prophesied by Jacob (I have waited for 
thy salvation, Lord,) and celebrated in sacred 
song by Moses, Miriam, Deborah, Hannah, David, 
and Isaiah, with all the after prophets, be your way 



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marks to Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Calvary; and for- 
get not Nazareth, (separated) for it is written, " he 
shall grow up, out of His place," — the way marks 
make a high heap ; but may be carried by a little 
child. 

In the ninth chapter of Zechariah, I think I see 
the judgment of the Gentiles by the victories of 
David the son of man, and the triumph of David 
the Son of God. I think I see two, or a double dis- 
pensation of grace to the chosen people of God. In 
the first part, the King is lowly, having salvation. 
In the other I behold Him, "a mighty man," and 
the Lord God, blowing the trumpet of God, saying, 

"I am Alpha and Omega, 
The beginning and the ending, 
Which is, which was, which is to come, 
The Almighty." 

I see also the return of Ephraim to Judah in the 
Lord, and the lost tribes are as "arrows of the 
Mighty, and Judah with his companions are made 
as the sword of a mighty man." I think I see in 
one verse, the saved remnant of the Gentiles, that 
shall walk in the light of Zion, and bring their 
honours to the city of Jehovah's joy ; and Ekron 
(barrenness) shall be as a Jebusite (trodden under 
foot.) 

In the first chapter of Jeremiah, I behold the 
exaltation of the Lord, and His Work in the 
Great Day. 



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In the ninth chapter of Isaiah I read the wick- 
edness that has a short triumph by Anti-Christ: and 
the terrible wars, in which (but not knowing it) 
every man (engaged for the Vile) shall eat the flesh 
of his own arm, Manasseh Ephraim, and Ephraim 
Manasseh, and they both shall be against Judah, 
whose remnant in Jerusalem are the first to con- 
fess to the divinity of their Messiah. " I will save 
the tents of Judah first •" and this word must go 
forth from Jerusalem. 

"The Lord is our Lawgiver 
The Lord is our king-, 
He will save us." 

One particular we should observe, viz. the construc- 
tion of the books of prophecy. The first chapter of 
Isaiah, exhibits the magnificence of sovereign grace, 
divinely triumphant over judgment, in the restora- 
tion of Jerusalem, that had fallen so low ; she is 
not the holy mountain of the Lord of hosts, but is 
called Sodom (in her rulers) and Gomorrah (in the 
character of her citizens) and is lamented as lost to 
virtue so entirely, that she is declared an harlot. 

The first chapter of Jeremiah exhibits to my 
view, the Lord Jesus Christ in his mission to do 
his Father's will, of which the dispensation of the 
Holy Ghost is a part, when by Paul's ministry of 
the gospel, Christ is ordained a phrophet unto the 
nations ; for Paul spoke in Christ's stead. 

It is evident that Jeremiah is spoken to as repre- 



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senting Christ, in the tenth verse, and that our 
Lord spoke of this to the Jews in the temple, 
(when they sought to slay him because he healed 
the cripple at Bethesda on the Sabbath day,) " the 
Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all 
judgment unto the Son; that all men should honour 
the Son even as they honour the Father. He that 
honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father 
which hath sent Him." 

The first chapter of Ezekiel shows to me, the 
whirlwind of vengeance, the cloud that is prepared 
for the Judge with the sharp sickle, and the Holy 
Ghost without cloven tongues to proclaim grace, 
and this with the 5 — 25 verses portray the great 
revolutions by judgments, that precede, and usher 
in the day of Christ, when the throne of David is 
the seat of redeeming love, even Immanuel the 
Prince of peace. 

The first chapter of Daniel introduces Israel and 
Judah, perfect in Christ, when He shall have per- 
formed on them the great work of regeneration, as 
well as of cleansing that is promised in the thirty- 
sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of Ezekiel. 

" The beginning of the Word of the Lord in 
Hosea (salvation) is declarative of the Shiloh that 
saves Judah, and will redeem Israel in the day 
when they shall acknowledge Christ their one 
head stone, elect, precious." 

Joel (swearing) opens the testimony of all Jeru- 



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Salem's enemies, and her miseries, by four king- 
doms, and the horn of the Vile, whose cheek teeth 
are like a great lion,* and Joel cries out, " Alas 
for the day ! for the day of the Lord is at hand, 
and as a destruction from the Almighty it shall 
come." 

What have I to do with the construction of the 
prophecies, asks — who? A humble seeker after 
truth? No. Permit me to show you my opinion. 
If a man knows not the construction of a ship, can 
he build a ship? What is a master builder? One 
that is acquainted with the construction of a ship, 
a house, or mill, &c. Some may say, Paul was a 
wise master builder of a house for Christ; and he 
has taught us that we must know nothing but 
Christ and him crucified. Stop there a moment. 
I anticipate your illustrations and your conclusions. 
Stop therefore, on gospel ground; for it is sanctified 
and it yieldeth fruit unto holiness, and the harvest 
is everlasting life. 

"Know Christ!" Who is Christ? What is 
Christ? Where is Christ ? 

It is written, that when our Lord came into the 
coasts of Cesarea Philippi (which is about eighty 
miles from Jerusalem), he asked His disciples, 
"Who do men say that I, the Son of man, am?" 
The disciples answered, " Some say that thou art 

*Rcv. 13. 



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John the Baptist; some, Elias; and others, Jere- 
mias, or one of the prophets." None of them knew 
the person of whom they spake. 

Our Lord then put the question home to his dis- 
ciples: He saith unto them, "But whom say ye 
that I am?" And Simon Peter answered, "Thou 
art the Christ, the Son of the living God." 

And Jesus answered, "Blessed art thou, Simon 
Barjona (hearing son of Jesus), for flesh and blood 
hath not revealed it unto thee (the children of the 
prophets have not told thee, nor the priests of the 
law shown thee), but my Father which is in 
Heaven. 

Our Lord then charged them that they should 
tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. 

From that time the holy Jesus preached to his 
little Jewish flock, the doctrine of his cross, that 
"the Christ must die!" The Messiah die! Peter 
rejects the doctrine, but owns the person; and he 
is no longer Simon Barjona, but Satan, or Sitnah, 
which is a heathen, and is hatred, Christ's Adver- 
sary. Which is the worst, to reject the doctrine or 
the person of Christ? Hear, Israel, hear our 
Lord: "My doctrine is not mine but His that sent 
me." Rejection of the doctrine of Christ, is virtually 
denying God. 

" If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in 
your sins." Rejection of the person of Christ in- 
volves destruction. 



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Now we are to understand that the Christ is 
Messiah, and that Messiah is the Son of God, and 
that the Son of God is Adonai, the Word. 

What is Christ in relation to God, as Christ, 
which is Messiah ? I shall quote the sixth verse 
of the second psalm. " Yet have I set my King 
upon my holy hill of Zion." Now I refer to the 
eighty-ninth psalm, and nineteenth verse, to prove 
that God spake of his Son Jesus Christ, when he 
said, "my King;" and then I assert, that the Sa- 
viour of Israel is God's first-born king, higher than 
the kings of the earth (i e. the holy land) : so that 
David, the first builder of Zion, calls Him Lord, 
although as the man, that is even God's fellow, or 
equal, He is entitled David's son. 

What is Christ, in relation to Adam's race? Hear 
our Lord, " I am the Light of the world." Go to 
the word by Isaiah, " I will give thee for a light 
to the Gentiles, that thou may est be my salvation 
unto the end of the earth, i. e. unto the consumma- 
tion of all the affairs of God with his creature man. 
The original life in Christ, is the light of men, and 
light (as defined by the learned), is the quality or 
medium of human sight. Christ laid down his life 
for us; and Christ the Messiah, was slain. The 
Light of Israel was extinguished, and the life of 
Messiah was cut off. Isaiah liii. 8. 

Hath Christ no other relation to Adam's race ? 
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is the High Priest over the house of God; and 
Christ is the Holy One of Israel. Christ is the King 
of Zion, in a personal relation to God, who is King 
over all the earth, and the seat of government is 
Zion, where God seateth Christ, and maketh all the 
holy angels worship Him. Christ is David's son, 
in His humiliation, by which He is known as the 
Good Shepherd, because he giveth his life for the 
sheep, and His twofold life, the life of God and the 
life of man, is no more two but one life, for the life 
taken was the blood, and the life laid down was 
the breath, so that the Spirit, the blood, and the 
water, bear record in the earth (His incarnation), 
that Jesus is the Christ, for he yielded up his life 
for the sheep, and was slain for sacrifice to God. 

Where is Christ? The Christ, I boldly declare, 
is now on the throne of God. There He is exalted 
by the Father, who sent Him into our wretched 
world, because God so loved the world, that He 
gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever be- 
lieveth on Him should not perish but have everlast- 
ing life. Christ is exalted for to give repentance to 
Israel, and remission of their sins. 

The Christ is the Lamb, the Passover, that is, 
God's passover, acceptable to justice, sufficient for 
judgment, and meet for holiness, in absolute cha- 
racteristic glory of the only living and true God. 
To whom was He sent? Hear Him: "I am not 
sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Is- 



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rael."* To whom did He address this declaration? 
To a Gentile. It is written, " He came to his own." 
Who are His own? the Elect. Who are the elect? 
Israel, the people that God foreknew, unto whom 
pertaineth the Law. See Exodus, 20th chapter; 
and the covenants (of Jacob from Abraham and 
Isaac, of Israel from Jacob, who wrestled and pre- 
vailed, and of God with Abraham, David, and Da- 
vid's Son, and Lord), and the glory. What is this? 
What did Moses ask for when he said to the God 
of Israel, "I beseech thee, show me thy glory." — 
Look at the answer, "thou canst not see my face; 
for no man can see my face and live." I will show 
thee my goodness, my grace, and my mercy; for 
thou art preserved. I will put thee in a cleft of the 
Rock, while I pass by. My face (in this passing 
by my servant) shall not be seen by Moses. — I now 
ask, what did Moses behold on Mount Tabor? The 
face of God, or the glory of God in the face of Je- 
sus Christ ; and the three apostles, Peter, James and 
John, report our Saviour " the Lord of glory," and 
Simeon, good old Simeon, as he clasped in his aged 
arms, the holy child Jesus, desired to die, because 
he had seen the longed for sight, Christ, the glory 
of Israel, even the Lord's Christ. 

* Some say in this dark time, that Christians are Israel in the 
gospel. Indeed! are Christians lost? I thought they were saved. 
I used to sing: Amazing grace! how sweet the sound 

That saved a wretch like me. 
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To know Christ and Him crucified, is a perfect 
synopsis of the belief of a true and devoted Literal- 
ist. For Christ is All in all of God, that is, was, or 
shall be revealed to man; and Him crucified is, the 
Ransom of God's creation. He paid the price de- 
manded by divine justice, the perfection of God as 
ruler over the works of His power, brought from 
non-entity into existence, of which he is the end as 
well as the cause. Creation was all very good, as 
it is so judged by the self-existent Creator; and the 
glory was man, and the crown woman. God is 
then at rest; and he ordained the time of his repose 
in the bosom of His good creation, for a sign of the 
rest that man should keep with Zion, when man 
had finished the work God gave to him to do, which 
was to dress the garden of the Lord God, and to 
keep it in order, the order of the Lord God. Man 
was the ruler over all the animal creation of God, 
and they came to him to be named. The Lord God 
was ruler over Adam, and it is written that He 
called the man and his help meet Adam in the day 
that He created them. One commandment the 
Lord God gave to Adam, saying to him, of every 
tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, but the 
tree of knowledge of good and evil; thou shalt not 
eat of it, for, in the day that thou eatest thereof, 
thou shalt surely die." 

The commandment was life. A kind parent has 
poison in a bottle to kill vermin. He says to his 



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beloved son, whose healthy bloom delights the pa- 
ternal eye, touch not that, if you take it, you will 
die the same day. The child disobeys — he dies — 
the fond parent cannot keep him in the house — he 
puts him in the grave. Adam took the poison, and 
he died. 

"The Lord is a God of truth." His Word is 
truth. No miraculous interposition of preventive 
power was exhibited in that day. "It is impossi- 
ble for God to lie." God is truth.* 

The Spirit of the Lord God that was breathed 
into the body formed of the dust of the ground, is 
vexed by Eve, and quenched in Adam, whose soul 
(awful fate) in Satan's power, halted not in the fall 
from honour that was only from God, till it came 
to the bounds of the animal, and the glory of God, 
with his crown, were lost, for man became like 
the beasts that perish. Animal sensation is all that 
Satan could effect, and the most that he desired. 
This he designed to turn to his own account, as an 

* O 3 The Spirit of life was instantly quenched in Adam by 
transgression against the law of the Spirit ; and Adam's body was 
then dead because of sin ; but the promise of the seed that should 
bruise the serpent's head, taking effect by grace in the Woman, 
Adam was personally held to bail (as the prisoner of Divine Jus- 
tice), by sovereign grace, until the revelation of the mystery of 
godliness accomplish the first word of prophecy (Gen. iii. 15); and 
I hold that the execution is individual (See 2 Thess. ii. and Rev. 
xix.), and that Adam in transgression, is a figure of him that is to 
come, i. e. Usurper over God. 






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agent against the just Ruler, so man in his fall into 
the animal becomes Satan's temple, into which he 
presumes to enter ; but hark ! there is a voice in 
the wind ! — Is Satan foiled ! Answer : He is cursed 
above all cattle. His doom is worse than death, that 
makes extinct Adam's body within the compass of 
a day of God. In the divine sentence upon Adam, 
Satan is not foiled ; nor is he near enough to God 
in knowledge, to quail at the judgment on Eve. 
The object of terror is her seed ; and He whose 
voice walked in the wind (the Spirit), Satan knew 
would walk in the flesh, and not in sinful flesh, but 
flesh that is meet for life to the world, and this 
decree is a check to Satan's power while it falls on 
woman's ear, for she directly believed, and her 
name is Eve. Yes. Satan's most potent foe in 
human form is the weak stem, until the Rod is 
brought forth that consumeth to destruction her Se- 
ducer, and all his works, finishing with death : "the 
last enemy that shall be destroyed." 

In that wofnl hour, when Satan reigned in Eden, 
we may discover the type of a scene yet more 
awful, because it opens in the vicinity of Gethse- 
mane and Calvary ; and beside this, the chief actor 
in that scene has a body called man, and that 
Wicked, who challenges God to personal combat, 
the same as to say, if thou hast taken my form, I 
will slay thee in it. ! Satan, thy mischief shall 
come upon thy own head (Anti-Christ) and thy ex- 
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istence shall finally be destroyed in him, the last 
body visible to lead thy host of the damned. A 
human body that is parted from the soul, by what 
is called dying, and dead, appears to be Satan's 
Agent in this great developement of the Serpent's 
original plan, which is to destroy a creation lower 
than his own, because it is literal, and capable of 
rising far above him, by purpose of one God, who 
is the Maker of all. 

I view the last rebellion (see Rev. xx.) as an 
extra of Satan's efforts, which excites no dread in 
me, because man is not the actor, nor the God- 
man Satan's object of defeat. For man, dead in 
spirit, and dying in flesh (930 years) the voice of 
the Lord God walked in the wind, that the Life in 
ages to come, might be known (as He is preached 
by Paul,) pre-existent, the Unchangeable Life, and 
without end. This life is (speaking after the man- 
ner of men) wasted, thrown away, destroyed, (by 
Satan in human shape,) so far as millions of our 
race perish from it by the dominion of the vile, 
usurping rule over all that is called God, or that is 
worshipped ; and the height of his ambition (in the 
literal) is, to sit upon the mount of the congregation, 
which is Zion, the strong hold of Jerusalem, the 
city of the great King. 

To expose this heading up of iniquity, (which 
has been hindered by the Spirit of truth, whose dis- 
pensation defends the gospel of salvation for the 



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Gentiles, until Christ himself issues the awful word, 
" my Spirit shall not strive with man," is answered 
by the Father, in taking him out of the way (and 
the Dove returns to Noah no more,) I say, to ex- 
pose this master-piece of the Devil, (I call it the per- 
sonal reign of Anti-Christ,) the pen must be dipped in 
that gall which was the literally rejected cup ; and 
I am always distressed as I approach the subject. 
When engaged in it, I think I know something of 
" horror of darkness ;" and no marvel, for the tes- 
timony traverses all the gloom of apostacy, in 
beholding the prince of darkness in literal treaty 
with the chosen people of God, who have rejected 
the rose for the offence of the thorn, the cross of 
holy mystery, the faith that triumphs by an Atone- 
ment Divine. — And I cannot forbear reproaching 
Christians, as helpers to this affliction. Christians 
did I say ? I will add falsely so called. If language 
has meaning, Christian intends a believer in Christ, 
and a follower, disciple, and friend of Christ. The 
whole meaning of the word Christ, is Anointed. It 
is the title which is appended to his name, as 
named by Gabriel ; and God hath made Him both 
Lord and Christ, as the Shepherd, (L e. King) of 
Israel. 

It is written that the disciples were called Christ- 
ians first at Antioch. They were (unintentionally,) 
honoured. If mortals can be called deserving, 
those brethren and sisters may have a share ; for 



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they glorified the word of the Lord, that Paul 
preached, and the theme was God's election of 
the tribes of Israel, to glory, by Jesus Christ. Paul 
declared that the resurrection of Christ from the 
dead to die no more, is actually God's directory 
to the children, where to find the King, and Paul 
quotes to the second Psalm, which is to be literally 
fulfilled in the great rebellion with a Captain, as the 
former with a priest. 

There is no excuse found, (or can be found,) in 
the Holy Scriptures, for rejection of the literal, or 
personal reign of Christ upon David's throne. Now 
I have asserted what I believe, is beyond contro- 
versy ; and suppose this is error, then I am not to 
be let alone because I am an insignificative woman. 
Take me your prisoner, and bring me before the 
Lord, and make your allegations against me in 
plain terms. If the Lord stoops to write on the 
ground, I am safe. 

Where is it recorded that Christ is rejected from 
reigning on the throne of David ? No where, except 
in the Infidel's will! 

Jesus of Nazareth was rejected, and he was 
slain ; but he rose from the dead, and went up to 
Heaven. 

Where is it recorded that Christ has rejected the 
throne of his glory ? Don't quote to the parable of 
the householder — read the 42d verse. 

It is very apparent that Christ upon David's 



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throne, is considered by nominal Christians at the 
present day, as their rival, rather than their praise. 
It is a horrible and a wonderful thing ! Why man, 
come down out of that pulpit, and go (not to hang 
thyself), but to wallow in dust and ashes, and cry 
for pardon of thy great offence, in denying the per- 
son of the royal Jew, and putting thy dark figure 
in his holy place. 

Go to the Oracle. Study the divine construction 
of the Holy Scriptures, and examine every cham- 
ber, upper and inner, to find the soul of prophecy, 
the testimony of Jesus Christ the Lord. "Ye do 
err, not knowing the scriptures," said the Blessed 
One to the Sadducees, in reply to their cavils in 
respect of the resurrection. Did ye never read in 
the scriptures (said He to priests and elders who de- 
manded by what authority he scourged the profaners 
of his house, and healed the lame and the blind), 
"the stone which the builders rejected, the same is 
become the head of the corner !" Now mark these 
two references of our Lord, to the Law and the 
testimony. The Sadducees were rebuked for their 
heresy, as the consequence of not knowing the 
scriptures, and the power of God. The chief 
priests and elders of the people were interrogated, 
have you never read the 118th Psalm? 

Now the three main propositions in my testi- 
mony are these, 1. The scriptures are literal upon 
the subject of our Lord's return to the earth in the 



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times of the restitution of all things which God hath 
spoken for, by the mouth of all his holy prophets, 
since the world began. 

2. Our Lord's return to the earth is an event 
that specially regards the twelve tribes of the 
children of Israel: ten tribes lost, and two dis- 
persed, that they will be gathered to Christ, be 
converted by him, and united in one nation and 
one kingdom, and that the kingdom shall be the 
Lord's. 

3. That the time of our Lord's Epiphany and 
Second Advent, is after the great tribulation 
brought on the Jews by their rejection of the 
Gospel, and their reception of Anti-Christ; and 
that the dominion of the latter is limited to three 
years and a half from the time of his elevation to 
the throne of David, which is called the obtaining 
the kingdom by flatteries. 

Knowing that all things which are written in the 
Law, in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concern- 
ing " Jesus of Nazareth," must be fulfilled, I think 
it a blessed privilege to look for the things, pray- 
ing to the Father of Mercies for help. " What I 
see not, (that is, if I cannot understand,) teach 
thou me." In order to learn, a sense of need of 
learning must bear upon my mind to keep it wait- 
ing upon the Lord. I believe in coming to Jesus, 
and hearing his sayings, I must listen to him in the 
beginning, as he is the beginning, and proceed to 



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the end, for he is the ending, confessing that nothing 
is impossible with God. 

In the books of the Law I think I discover the 
construction of God's everlasting kingdom. 1. 
Twelve Foundations, in which Christ is the chief 
corner stone, elect, precious. Christ is bone of 
Israel's bones, and flesh of Israel's flesh, in the 
Resurrection Life, of which Christ, the first fruits 
of life from the dead, the twelve tribes of the 
children of Israel, and all the strangers brought 
nigh by the blood of sprinkling, (who were some- 
time afar off, and aliens), are partakers by grace of 
the Father; Christ, of the Joy for which he endured 
the cross, and the Saved, of Joy that the Taber- 
nacle of God is with men. On this wise I believe 
the incorporation of Cornelius and his house, with 
Christ and His house into the Heavenly City; and 
by marvellous grace of calling; but I reject with 
utter detestation and abhorrence the sentiment, 
that Christ in his glory is absent from his own 
house, because in his humiliation they rejected 
him; for this representation gives the doctrine of 
Christ the lie, and two ways at least, for He com- 
mands us to be reconciled to our offended brother 
before we offer our gift, and He declared that not 
one jot or tittle of the Law should fail. 

The great apostle of the Gentiles, in his eloquent 
illustration of the first resurrection, (Christ first, 
afterward they that are Christ's at his coming,) 



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speaks of the reign of Christ upon the earth, till he 
hath put all his enemies under his feet, even death, 
(the last enemy), and then the Son delivereth up 
the kingdom to the Father, &c. 

What kingdom? The Adamic kingdom to be 
sure. The kingdom lost by the fall from spiritual 
good into animal evil, which brought death into the 
world. " The body without the Spirit is dead." 
Now observe the apostle: as in Adam all die, so in 
Christ shall all (God's elect) be made alive. 
Now mark this, that the pale enemy is reserved to 
the last, (with little, I think, to do after the Gen- 
tiles are called, and our Lord's dominion extends 
beyond the wall, even from sea to sea, and from 
the river to the ends of the earth,) as a witness to 
Christ's power that he is infinite. The Devil (of 
whom is sin) is sent or cast into what? Swine? 
Yea, into the bodies that are in the lake of fire, 
even before the general resurrection and the last 
judgment takes place. 

After the Devil is finally disposed of, the heavens 
and the earth flee away. 

(Where is the beloved city? "Lifted up and 
inhabited in her place, which is Heaven, or holi- 
nesses. See Zech. xiv. 10). For the face (the 
whole of God, as before a Mediator was ordained 
in the counsels of Tri-Unity in the Existence,) of 
Him that inhabits the great white throne, as infinite 
fills infinite space, and there is no refuge for the 






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airy regions or the starry orbs, so they flee away or 
rather are dissolved. 

Then the dead, small and great, stand before 
God. Now, fools (infidels), do not grumble 
about room, for the millions of legions of millions 
are occupants of space appointed by Infinity; and 
(except Eden, which surrenders her dead in Christ's 
reign for Adam's time, one thousand years, and is 
cleansed, renewed, sanctified, made glorious, and 
lifted into the upper chambers, or the prepared 
place among many mansions), all this globe, land 
and water, may come, drop by drop, and sand by 
sand, into bodies great and small, from the giant of 
Gath to the infant of a span, and have room; for 
they must, they shall stand before God. 

The books are opened, every record is true. 
Each must read his own and not another's; but 
all may hear. Then another book is opened, the 
Book of Life. All the others are books of death; 
for at the last judgment all the world is proclaimed 
(by individual confession) guilty before God. 

The Book of Life is opened. All the names 
recorded are called over; and now, Death, the 
rest are thy prisoners: then, says Death, I am 
destroyed in them, and away they go into the lake 
of fire, which is the second death, and is the 
Devil's torment. No murderer hath eternal life 
abiding in him, and his only escape is to the city of 
refuge; but the duelist (if he fall in the duel), can- 



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not do this. No; he enters death's territory with- 
out leave of his Saviour, and in that dark land is 

no city, even death's dark valley 

One question. Is there any hope of any self-mur- 
derer? I think, very little indeed. I must say, 
that the words, " with God nothing shall be impos- 
sible," are all that I can represent, and I must 
leave the frightful subject to pursue my immediate 
testimony. 

When the last enemy is destroyed, a scene of 
incomparable and inconceivable glory bursts upon 
the enraptured vision of the Apocalyptic prophet, 
and he writes : " I saw a new heaven and a new 
earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were 
passed away, and there was no more sea. And I 
John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem," &c. 

Here I think our blessed Saviour presents the 
kingdom to the Father. "Here am I, and the 
children thou hast given me. These I have re- 
deemed from death, and they are thine. Question : 
Who are the given children? I believe the true 
answer is ready in the sixth verse of the seven- 
teenth chapter of John; and the twelfth verse is 
witness to the same. The last shall be first, and 
the first shall be last. Christ is first, and he is last; 
and the last Adam is Jacob the Supplanter, Israel 
the Prevalent Prince with God, the Son of God, 
the Son of David, and David's Lord. Upon 
David's throne the Christ of God ruleth as the 



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second Adam, a quickening Spirit. This rule is 
obtained by the Son of David, (even the holy child 
Jesus), by gift of the Lord God, and He takes pos- 
session of the throne of David in character of the 
second Man, and Lord from Heaven. Over whom 
does the King of Eden bear rule in his glory? 
Over the house of Jacob; and they are represented 
at his coming as " mourners in Zion, to whom he 
will give beauty (immortality) for ashes, (their 
earthly nature,) the oil of joy (His kingly favour) 
for mourning, and the garment of praise (salvation) 
for the spirit of heaviness, (a heart of stone), that 
they may be called Trees of Righteousness around 
the Tree of Life. They are the planting of the 
Lord, that he (not they) may be glorified as it is 
written, " In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel 
glory/' 

In the Adamic reign by the son of man, the 
kingdom is the Lord's, that is the Word, or the 
second, or the son. The God of Heaven sets it up, 
by Jesus Christ our Lord; and it shall never be 
destroyed : it shall not be " left to other people," 
it shall stand forever, because the Lord is king. 
The kingdom waits for Him. It is now in ruins ; 
and the voice of the Word now is, " I have for- 
saken my house, I have left my heritage : I have 
given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand 
of her enemies." 

How long, Lord, how long shall the vision of 
judgment be? Thou wilt surely remember mercy. 



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Thou art God (in thy holiness, which is one with 
thy truth) and not man, (in unrighteousness that 
sweareth falsely) therefore the sons of Jacob are 
not consumed. "I the Lord change not: I am: 
the Eternity of Israel will not repent, for His 
name sake; and the God of Israel cannot lie : 

"I have sworn by my holiness : 
But, they have smitten the Judge of Israel upon 
the cheek, therefore have I given them up, until 
the time that* she that travaileth hath brought 
forth : then, will I remember mercy in the midst of 
my wrath ; for a remnant shall be saved, and the 
consumption decreed (see Isaiah xxviii. 22.) shall 
overflow with righteousness." Isaiah x. 

The twenty-third chapter of Jeremiah contains 
a powerful testimony to the person of the King, 
and the subjects of His glory. I should suppose 
that anti-Literalists, and anti-Millenarians would 
hardly dare to steal it from their neighbour. 

"Behold the days come, saith the Lord, 
That I will raise unto David 
A righteous branch, (see Zech.) 
And a king shall reign and prosper, 
And shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 
In His days Judah shall be saved, 
And Israel shall dwell safely, 
And this is his name 
Whereby he shall be called, 
The Lord, our righteousness. 
O" In his days Judah shall be saved. j^\ 

* See Jeremiah 6. 1 — 7. 



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Question. Whose days ? Answer. The branch 
from David's Root, which is the God of hosts. 
The king that shall prosper. N. B. Josiah was 
slain by the uncircumcised : his son was wicked, 
and the kingdom of David failed in power, as it 
failed in righteousness when Solomon was old. 
Jehoahaz (possesion of the Lord) was put in bands 
at Riblah (quarrel) by the king of Egypt, who 
slew Josiah at Armageddon, and his brother Je- 
hoiakim did no better, and the king of Babylon 
came up, and the Lord sent bands against Jehoia- 
kim, beside the Chaldees, viz. Syrians, Moabites, 
and the children of Ammon. Jehoiakim died in a 
time of trouble. 

Jehoiachin, his son, also did evil in the sight of 
the Lord; and his reign was short: only three 
months. In his short time, Jerusalem was besieged 
by the order of Nebuchadnezzar, who, however, 
appointed an uncle of Jehoiachin to be king over 
the besieged city. And Nebuchadnezzar changed 
his name, from Mattaniah (gift of the Lord), to 
Zedekiah (justice of the Lord), and Zedekiah 
(through the anger of the Lord,) rebelled against 
the king of confusion ; and in the eleventh year, a 
famine prevailed, and in the ninth month, the 
city was broken up, the king of Judah fled by the 
way of the plain, was taken near Jericho, his eyes 
were put out, and he was bound with fetters of 
brass, and carried to Babylon. 

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This took place about 453 years before the 
Christian era ; and I ask, when, and how, and by 
whom, has Judah been saved; and Israel, where 
are they? Or where is she, the cast out? Judah we 
behold on the present dates of history ; but not 
saved. Alas ! no. But Israel — few will look to 
the wilderness of the land of the overspreading 
wing, saying, "Lo! the people shall dwell alone, 
and not be reckoned among the nations." 

Never has Judah been saved (nationally) since 
the captivity in Babylon : her independent Lion 
has stooped down (John viii.) He has couched as 
an old Lion, weary and faint : Who shall rouse 
Him up ? ife appears not to know that he has a 
Lionness,or whelps. He went up from the prey, and 
the high Throne received Him. In the midst He is 
now standing as a Lamb that was slain, and the 
elders (the fathers) worship Him as the Lamb that 
was slain to redeem Israel out of every kindred, 
tongue, people, and nation, by His blood: yea, 
redeem them to God; and even in heaven He is 
called the Lion of Judah, and the Root of David. 

Now it is evident to me, that the literality of 
that scene in that part of the vision that John saw 
in the Spirit on the Day of the Lord, (for John 
saw the whole, one day as a thousand, and a thou- 
sand as one Day) opens upon the present genera- 
tion, in the great heat of anti-christ's wars, when 
they that understand among the people shall warn 



Ill 

many, and they shall fall by the sword, by flame, 
by captivity, and by spoil, many days (I under- 
stand the terms many days to belong to Daniel's 
vision.) Our Lord said except those days should 
be shortened, no flesh should be saved; but, (said 
the Blessed One) for the elect's sake, the days shall 
be shortened. 

The prophet Daniel heard the words, "many 
days," according to the appointment of God in 
the wilderness of Kadesh Barnea (Holiness of the 
inconstant son) when "an evil report was brought 
into the camp of the host, by ten men of the 
twelve, that Moses sent to spy out the promised 
land. It was a great offence ; and finally it was a 
sin unto death. Moses offered no prayer to save 
them.* They were judged to die in the wilder- 
ness, and never to enter the Eden of God; but 
their little ones should not perish, yet they must 
wander about in the wilderness as many years, as 
their fathers spent days in spying the land. 

Caleb and Joshua bore a noble testimony in 
that time against those wicked men, guilty of high 
treason against the God of Israel ; and this they 
did in opposition to the whole congregation or 
host, whose cry was, " let us make a Captain and 
return into Egypt." Moses and Aaron fell on 
their faces before all the Assembly of the host of 
the children of Israel. 

* i. e. The ten spies that made a false report. 



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And Joshua (Saviour) the son of Nun (flock), 
and Caleb (as the heart) the son of Jephunneh 
(beholding), rent their clothes. 

Here I cannot forbear the remark, that at this 
very time (1844), the sin of denying God's cove- 
nant land, and his elect city, their praise in the ages 
to come, is upon the face now called Christian, and 
one eye (the right) being darkened, the other only 
beholds Moses and Aaron fallen upon their faces: 
they see not Joshua and Caleb rending their clothes, 
nor can they hear the true report of these two wit- 
nesses, but rather speak louder and longer, which 
is the same as stoning with stones. 

The testimony of Caleb and Joshua being finish- 
ed, and their lives immediately threatened by the 
church, the Lord descends, and he appears before 
all the children of Israel; and he said unto Moses, 

"I will disinherit them, &c." 
Moses replies, 

"The Egyptians (the infidels) will hear it, and 
thy power will be denied. 

"Pardon I beseech Thee the iniquity of this 
people,* cried Moses:" 

"Father forgive them gasped their Beloved on 
the cross ! ! !" 

Was Moses heard ? Did his prayer prevail ? 
Hear, ye, who deny the restoration of your 
neighbours in Chatham Street, to the Father land. 

* The nation : not the ten offenders against the Holy Ghost. 



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" And the Lord said, I have pardoned according 
to thy word: i. e. for my own Holy Name sake, 
(the Lord, the Lord God, &c.) I will bring the 
little ones into my good land, and my servant 
Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, &c." 

Here I beg to propose the 24th verse as a very 
significant token of the restoration of the Jews in 
the day of Christ, for the terms "another spirit was 
with him/' and the title "my servant," reach even 
to the Kingship over all Israel that commenced at 
Hebron (friendship) ; and Joshua gave Hebron to 
Caleb by commandment of the Lord. Here is 
"patience and comfort of the scriptures," to cheer 
the Philo-Judean, whose heart is now affected by 
the unbelief, and the sorrows of that separate 
nation, the brethren (according to the flesh) of our 
Lord. 

In the 30th verse Caleb is mentioned with Joshua; 
and they only, (of six hundred 1000 and 3000, five 
hundred and 50 men of Israel that were able to go 
forth to war, numbered by their polls, at the com- 
mand of God in the wilderness of Sinai,) only two 
— one from Leah (sheep), one from Rachel (weary 
sheep), are chosen to salvation, in that literal sense 
which renders it necessary for us (in these times), 
to tremble and fear before the Lord, lest we should 
fail of "the grace of Life," yea, the first resurrec- 
tion or entrance into the kingdom of the second 



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man, which is the Adamic, or 1000* years' reign 
of our Lord upon the earth. 

Christians ! — called so in Paul's day — called so 
now ! how can you answer to the Judge of Israel 
(which certainly is the Christ), in the great day, 
when we must all stand before God to give an 
account of the deeds done in the body, how can 
you answer to my present charge against you, of 
high Treason against the expiring King of the 
Jews, who prayed, Father forgive them? 

I must exhibit this testimony and my former 
testimonies to the person of Christ in His Kingly 
Lordship, and His eternal Priesthood, for the sub- 
jects of His Adamic reign upon David's throne, 
which reign is the destruction of Death and hell. 
I must answer to the Judge of all for all that I have 
done, and I now solemnly propose to thee, Anti- 
Literalist! (on the sacred subject of the prophecies, 
Christ,) that question of the penitent thief upon the 
cross, "Dost thou not fear God, seeing thou art in 
the same condemnation?" For, let us confess, that 
in our surrender of all our account unto God for 
judgment, in that Day when the fire trieth every 
work of mortals, we stand in our native character 
(sinners), at the Judgment seat, because we have 
come short of the Glory of God, which is Christ. 
He alone is Justified in Himself. We fail even of 

* See 2 Peter iii. 8, 9. 



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His moral perfection in ourselves, where is the 
sentence of death, and in our flesh dwelleth no 
good thing. No righteousness is named in that 
Day in our motives, or in our words or acts that is 
our own: not the very most fervent prayer we ever 
offered with all our might, is without stain in the esti- 
mation of the witness bearer (Conscience cleansed 
by the Blood, quickened in the Spirit, and cherished 
by the Water of Life,) of Truth, healthy, whole 
and strong, in the vigour of immortal praise to the 
Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the 
world. No self praise, or praise in self, for imita- 
tion of the immaculate Author, commander, and 
example of prayer, will mingle its darkness with 
the light, in our account of the deeds done in the 
body, at the great Day. 

"I have prayed whole nights:" will this be 
uttered ? if uttered, what follows ? Ah ! 

"I chattered with a swallow's voice." 
Perhaps in the light of God's countenance, we may 
behold our prayers among the secret sins, which 
grieved His Spirit more than our open failures, or 
our known transgressions. The latter, effect the 
declarative praise of God, in the opinion of them 
that are professedly without the pale of godliness, 
but secret sins pierce the sorrow stricken Dove to 
His vitals, — the Heart, the lowly heart of Christ. 

It is of the highest importance to us, now, while 
our probation is appended to the words, "Grace, 



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mercy, and peace," to possess them in their indi- 
vidual sense, by hearty embrace of hope (against 
all that opposes in us, or in the world) that maketh 
not ashamed; for Grace says that Christ (the 
Anointed King) was delivered for our offences, 
Mercy declares that it behoved Him to suffer, and 
to rise again from the dead, while Peace waves the 
Olive Branch (Christ) in every direction that Ave 
may view our lost souls — lost — not almost lost, 
when we feel cold in prayer, but entirely lost when 
we are favoured to feel warm, and Peace says, 
God finds thee sinner, in Christ: thou art not 
required to find thyself poor soul : find Christ, that 
is thy part : find Him now, while He is on the 
Mercy seat, stay by Him till He moves off to the 
Judgment Seat : follow there as dumb as He was, 
and glory in the change, that makes Him Judge, 
and thou, my soul, the condemned, for after we 
have rendered up all our account as sinners, God 
in Christ says, "I find no fault at all in this soul: 
no fault at all." Jesus of Nazareth, the King of 
the Jews, bore all these sins, and all this iniquity, 
in His own body on the tree. On Him was the 
burden, and He was Accursed. This soul is clear: 
this soul is blessed : yea, saved by Grace, the gift 
of God. 

Are you dissatisfied with this burning in the fur- 
nace of judgment? Are the strokes of God's 



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hammer (a perfected conscience*) too painful even 
in anticipation to endure ? Do you say, I am a 
sinner in comparison of God, but I am a saint 
in comparison with the Jews; for I believe in 
Christ. If you do not consent that Christ is King 
of the Jews, I declare that you have not even heard 
of Christ, and how shall the heathen that have not 
heard his fame, know him by faith ? Suppose 1 
tell you, that I see you change coats with the one 
that Satan desired to sift, and that the enemy has 
overtaken you in this garb " I know not the man." 

But if we do really believe all that is written of 
Christ, and yet shrink from believing all that is 
written of us ; if we say, we have no sin, now that 
we are saved by grace, and that our prayers are 
not to be accounted for, that is, spoken of in our 
account, as unworthy, and even sinful (not Sin, if 
we are contrite) because they come through an 
earthen channel, 1 say, if thus we boast, our glory 
is not in Christ, but in his enemy Self, pious, 
godly, praying Self, and such counterfeit piety and 
godliness, is " like an oak whose leaf fadeth, and a 
garden wherein is no water." 

The prayer of faith that saves the sick, is not of 
the believer, but of the Holy Ghost. At the 
present day where are the brethren? Where is the 
oil ? There is a little remnant left, a little remnant of 

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that gracious thing called prayer, and those who 
have it are grieved for the afflictions of Joseph, and 
lament the captivity of Zion. They are despised, 
rejected, and judged not fit to live. 

But to the charge of high Treason against the 
King of the Jews. Awful thought ! ! ! 

"Father forgive them ! ! !" Do you ask me to 
prove that this prayer has any reference to the res- 
toration of the Jews to their Father Land ? then I 
will ask you three questions to one ; and beg that 
your replies may be consistent with your pro- 
fessions, that Scott and Henry, (your most renowned 
Expositors of the Holy Scriptures) are " instructors 
in Christ" 

1. Was Moses a type of Christ ? 

2. Is Christ the High Priest over God's house ? 

3. Are the promises of God, yea, and Amen in 
Christ ? Moses prayed for the people* that God 
brought out of Egypt in His Might, (I am that I 
am, " Almighties,") that the Lodd, whom they 
had seen face to face, with His cloud standing over 
them and going before them, a shade in the day, a 
lamp by night, would pardon this great offence, as 
He had forgiven them from Egypt unto that time. 

The prayer of Moses was granted immediately, 
by Word. It was fulfilled after the death of their 

* The nation : not the ten liars. 



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typical Mediator ; and Joshua conducted the host 
over Jordan into the promised Land. 

The prayer of Moses at Kadesh Barnea, and the 
prayer of Jesus upon the cross, amount to the same 
thing, deliverance from punishment due to sin. 
Moses addressed the Word, and Christ addressed 
God. Moses plead nothing but the honour of 
Christ ; but Christ represented the ignorance of His 
people, on which He based the object of his dying 
cry, " forgive ! ! I" The remarkable expression 
(in the features of typical scenes that concern God's 
covenant of the Land,) of Jealousy for his Holy 
Name, who had promised Abraham that his seed 
should inherit it for an everlasting possession, is ter- 
rible Anger ; and literal fire displayed the effect of 
that Jealousy, especially in the destruction of the 
second temple. " Open thy doors, Lebanon, 
that the fire may devour thy cedars, was prophecy, 
until the night that witnessed Cesar's victory : then 
it became fact, and the pride of Jordan is spoiled to 
this day. It was not to evade Judgment that Moses 
prayed the Lord to pardon the nation of his 
choice : it was not omission of the rod that Jesus 
implored with His dying breath. The Mediatorship 
of both type and Prototype occupied the long suf- 
fering, and the great mercy, of a covenant keeping 
God, without any putting away of judgment threat- 
ened upon disobedience, rebellion and sin ; and 
the great apostle exclaims " Behold the severity of 



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God on them that fell :" that fell, alas ! upon their 
Rock: their Rock of defence became (through 
their unbelief) a stumbling stone; and even the 
prayer of Christ for them " Father forgive/ ' seems 
to have expired with Him, to know no resurrection, 
according to succession of the same estimate or 
judgment, manifested on the people of God, His 
City, and Land ; if they walk contrary, to me, I will 
walk contrary unto them, which is the reverse of 
the Blessed Gospel. It is written that the Lord 
turned and looked on Peter ! ! !" Yea, while that 
apostle (in his fright) sealed his triple denial with 
an oath, the suffering Lamb opened His eyes on 
the offender, in pity's melting expression blended 
with command, " swear not at all — I have prayed 
for thee." 

The dark cloud of despair hung not over Jeru- 
salem, even when Christ was a prisoner in Caiphas' 
house, on Mount Zion; for — (Blessings on the 
Lamb for ever and ever,) Peter wept ! ! ! that flinty 
rock gave water to soften Judah's earth ! 

The dark cloud of despair, hung not over Jeru- 
salem , when Christ was arraigned at Pilate's bar ; 
for even Rome's delegate declared Him the King 
of the Jews, and his pathway to Calvary was 
watered by the tears of Zion's daughters, Glory be 
to the God of Israel ! ! ! 

The last words of David, now revive,in testimony 
that the Anointed of the God of Jacob, suffers not 



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the dark cloud of despair to stay upon the dwelling 
place of His chosen people. 

" Father forgive them ;" and died ! ! ! 
"Christ is risen." Christ is ascended." 
" As the tender grass, springing out of the earth, 
by clear shining after rain, so came forth the rod 
from Jesse's Stem, and He appeared first to Mary 
Magdalene, as she mourned and wept. Yea, He 
was to her (in her typical character,) " as 

The light of the morning 

When The Sun Riseth 

Even a morning without clouds." 

Never upon the mountain where Abraham re- 
ceived his joy as alive from the dead (in a figure) 
can sullen Despair erect his tabernacle by leave of 
Israel's Covenant God; for He hath purposed (and 
who shall disannul it ?) that on Gilboa is the curse, 
and Blessing shall be upon Zion : her Dew is as 
the de w of herbs, and her earth shall cast out the 
dead, in the times of restitution of all things that God 
hath spoken for by the mouth of all His holy 
prophets, since the world began. 

For Lo ! One particle of Zion's earth is become 
a quickening Spirit, and the Heavens have received 
it. The Minister of the circumcision, for the truth 
of God, to confirm the promises made unto the 
fathers, " is gone into Heaven," yea, " He is as- 
cended above all heavens that He might fill all 
things 5" and the object of His exaltation is de- 

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clared by the Holy Ghost, even to give repentance 
to Israel, and the remission of their sins, according 
to the promise of the New Covenant with the 
house of Israel, and the house of Judah, 

" I will be merciful to their unrighteousness ; 
And their sins, and their iniquities will I remember no more." 

The dying Lamb hath set his seal to this Decree, 
in His prayer on the cross ; and its connexion with 
the restoration of the Jews to the Father Land, 
and to the Mother City, is indissolubly bound up 
in the New Covenant of Life and peace. In vain 
do the robbers of the people of Daniel seek to 
establish the vision of judgment against Jerusalem, 
and her children. The sure word of prophecy, 
the doctrines of the Gospel, has never made a bed 
too short for the Man of sorrows, nor a covering 
too narrow for the body of flesh and bones that 
was raised from the dead, to die no more. 

The clouds of heaven shall envelope the sacred 
person of Zion's King, and in them will He de- 
scend into His garden, to dress, and to keep it 
forever 

To show that forgiveness is connected with res- 
toration, our Blessed Lord after his resurrection 
from the dead, exhibited to the eleven, and the two 
disciples on their return from Emmaus, the literality 
of His own original person as raised from the 
dead ; and referred their memory to His doctrine, 
that He preached to them, while He was yet with 



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them "in the likeness of sinful flesh," (i. e. in- 
firmity) making His exposition to compare with 
the open testimonies of Zachariah, the Virgin 
Mother, and His two witnesses in the temple 
Simeon, and Anna: also the message of Gabriel 
His own personal Angel of the Joy, that is set 
before Him in the latter Day, the grand Jubilee of 
Ages to come. 

To impress the truth upon the minds of His 
wondering disciples, our Lord declared that the 
fulness of His sufferings, must necessarily precede 
the power of His Name, in forgiveness of sins; 
and that even, beyond the necessity, to Him it was 
a duty, and he was obligated thereto, because He 
had sworn to Moses, in the hearing of all Israel, 
that the whole earth shall be filled with the glory 
of the Lord ; and this He did in the provocation, 
when the temptation threatened disinheritance of 
the numbered Nation of God, and Levi must have 
no Sceptre, the house He proposed to build from 
that time. 

On the cross our Lord prayed "Father forgive:" 
At His resurrection, He orders that forgiveness be 
proclaimed, in His Name, among all nations, be- 
ginning at Jerusalem the Capital City of Martyrs : 
preach forgiveness in my Name, and I will ratify 
it by converting a great multitude to the faith once 
delivered to the saints, that Judah shall be saved, 
Israel dwell safely, under the shadow of their 



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Rock, and Jerusalem be established a praise in the 
-earth. 

We are not to suppose that the prayer of Jesus 
upon the cross, was at the time, a general thing. 
I deny this, both in object, and subject. Christ 
came to Jerusalem a few days before, in character 
of Zion's Shepherd, (or King) to lay down His 
Life for the lost sheep of the house of Israel, and 
He was ready to suffer, that He might redeem 
them that were under the Law. In the constitu- 
tion of a kingdom, we know, that next to the 
person of the Sovereign the treasury of his em- 
pire is defended by Statutes that may not be re- 
scinded, even by the King himself. " The Consti- 
tution must not be broken." How often have we 
heard this declaration in regard to the Articles of 
the Federal Republican Government of the United 
States. 

In the Law of God, which he gave to the chil- 
dren of Israel, (and to no other people or nation 
under heaven,) "ordinances of Divine service were 
set up in a Sanctuary called by the Apostle worldly, 
because it was made by the hands of man of ma- 
terial and created things. First the tabernacle; 
and this is called the Sanctuary, in which was the 
Candlestick, the Table and the Show Bread." 

After this the second Vail, and within, the Holiest 
of all, where was the Ark of the Covenant and 
the Altar of incense, the tables of the Covenant, 



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i. e. the ten Commandments, the Pot of manna 
(angels' food: Is. lxxviii. 25) and Aaron's rod that 
budded. Over the Mercy Seat were cherubims of 
gold. All these are called the patterns of the hea- 
venly things; and are entitled one thing, even 
God's Sanctuary. 

Solomon, the son of David, was honoured to 
build a temple for prayer to the God of Israel, 
and in that sacred house, the elect son of the man 
that is styled "David the King," built an Oracle, 
(a holy place) for the Sanctuary of the Lord God 
of hosts, which is our Saviour Jesus, the Christ of 
God. 

At the dedication of that Temple (a massy pile 
of unrivalled splendour that may be called temporal, 
being seen, as built by the direction and by hands of 
man), King Solomon performed the service of 
Consecration, as a priest upon the throne which is 
the Lord's; and why? Answer. "The priests 
could not stand to minister, because of the Glory 
of the Lord, that filled the house." And how 
was this? Answer. "Because the Ark of the 
Lord, and the tabernacle of the congregation 
were brought up from the City of David, which is 
Zion, and the Ark of the Covenant was set in His 
place," even in the Oracle, (the Holy place that 
Solomon prepared for it) and then the God of Israel 
recorded His Name, in the place He had chosen 
from the foundation of the world. 



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The covenant Cloud filled the house; and the 
King spoke. He knew the Law. He knew the 
Lawgiver. The Lawgiver beyond Moses, who 
brought the Law to Israel. The King knew the 
'cloud, and he addressed the G lory : 

" I have surely built Thee a house lo dwell in : 
* A settled place for Thee r to abide in forever!" 

King Solomon then turned his face toward the 
people, and blessed the whole congregation of 
Israel, and then he ascended the brazen scaffold 
which he had built, and kneeled down upon his 
knees before the Altar (Christ) of the Lord, and 
spreading forth his hands toward Heaven, he said, 
u Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee 
in Heaven, nor in the earth, which keepest cove- 
nant and showest mercy unto thy servants that 
walk before thee with all their hearts." 
- The prayer occupies twenty-nine verses: the 
third and fourth are intercessory for the perpetuity 
of David's throne: the fifth glances upon that 
Name Immanuel: "But will God in very deed 
dwell with men on the earth?" 

The conclusion invokes remembrance of the sure 
mercies of David, and then fire came from Heaven, 
and the glory of the Lord filled the house. 

It appears now that the throne of David is estab- 
lished in the hand of Solomon (peaceable), and the 
Lord appeared to him again, and informed Solo- 
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said, "I have chosen this place to myself for a 
house of sacrifice." 

Among all the treasures of the house of the 
Lord, none were so precious as the two tables of 
the Covenant, for they were written in the secret 
place, and the writing was the writing of God. 
Ten Commandments they are called ; and the 
Moral Law; but I can find at least thirteen statutes 
and many branches, making out the perfection of 
Love toward God and toward man. This Cove- 
nant renewed by the Messiah, in Grace, and not of 
merit on Israel's part, will constitute the felicity of 
Paradise under Reign, Dominion, and Praise of 
Holiness, by Jesus Christ our Lord; for written in 
the hearts of His people by Himself, (who inscribed 
it upon Stone), it will reflect the pure and perfect 
image of God, in all righteousness, and goodness, 
and truth. 

Question: Was King Solomon responsible to 
God, and to Israel, for the perfect observance of all 
this Law? 

Undoubtedly; and 1. As a type of Christ, he was 
obligated to maintain the Covenant " with a per- 
fect heart, and with a willing mind;" for the Lord 
had chosen him to build a house for the Sanc- 
tuary." 

2. Solomon was (in all his greatness) but dust and 
ashes, in the decree of death, and after death, and 
at the Great Day, must give an account of the 



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deeds done in the body, therefore it was duty to 
honour and keep the Covenant, that God might be 
honoured, and all Ages and generations be edified, 
especially the Assembly that he blessed as a type 
of the Great King of Jerusalem, who is the Judge 
of quick and dead. 

Let us look into the Ritual of Moses, that con- 
tains the pure order of a theocracy, symbolical of 
the kingdom of the second Man, in the Ages of 
Glory. 

In the seventeenth chapter of Deuteronomy, (a 
rehearsal of the whole of the second Law), there 
is Commandment concerning the king, that he 
shall have a copy of the Law in a book, upon his 
throne, and he must read therein all the days of 
his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his 
God, to keep all the words of this law, and these 
statutes, and do them: that his heart be not lifted 
up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside 
from the commandment to the right hand, nor to 
the left; to the end that he may prolong his days 
in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of 
Israel. 

N. B. The king is forbidden to multiply horses, 

wives, or silver and gold to himself. 

It appears that the King of Israel should be a pat- 
tern to his subjects of lowliness, humility, and 
heavenly mindedness, that all might take know- 
ledge of him, that the Anointing of his person was 



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from the Holy One, and the token that Satan's 
yoke shall be utterly destroyed. 

Ah! and Alas! No record is in existence of 
such a character upon David's throne, unto this 
day; for even "the man after God's own heart" 
failed and fell, and his sin hath caused the enemies 
of the Lord to blaspheme, even unto this day. A 
wo is upon Zion! The Ark of the covenant of 
the Lord is removed. Where? To Moriah. (Bit- 
terness of the Lord.) Has it rested? No. Dis- 
turbed by pride, ostentation, vanity, by prancing 
horses, and gilded chariots, with outlandish womeri 
in strange apparel, and the worship of their false 
gods: after Solomon, it was polluted more and 
more by royal tyranny and civil Avars: and finally 
thrown down by a wooden god placed on the 
sacred Altar that represented Christ, it mourns in 
desolation, is stripped bare of its beautiful curtains 
of blue, all the sacred treasures are lost, and there 
is nothing left but the dust of earth, on which the 
children may not even look, much less dare to put 
their feet. 

When was the tabernacle of David literally 
prostrated? 

In little less than a Jubilee year, L e. fifty to one, 
from the time of the Idol. 

Has it lain in ruins from Nebuchadnezzar until 
now? 

If the Divine Shechinah came not by fire at the 



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Dedication of the second temple, if instead of fire, 
the remembrance of the Glory was present in the 
minds of the ancient men, and instead of the Ark 
and altar of gold, with the tabernacle of witness, 
built by Moses at the voice of the Lord, a new 
altar must be reared, without David to put about 
it the curtains : if instead of two tables of the Cove- 
nant written upon stones with, or by, the finger of 
God, a Copy was in the hand of Ezra (an Helper) 
of that holy Constitution of God's kingdom, written 
on parchments: if the Pot of manna, Aaron's rod 
that budded and blossomed almonds, were missing, 
one would hardly dare to proclaim Restoration of 
David's house, especially in the absence of the 
King that should bless the people. 

All that Ezra and Nehemiah (repentance of the 
Lord) could do, to honour the place of God's 
Sanctuary, they did with cheerful readiness and in 
the fear of the Lord; and their helpers, Joshua and 
Zorobabel, with their brethren the priests, were 
holy and choice reformers. But still the tabernacle 
of David was not builded as in the days of old. It 
waits for the Beloved. 

He came. He entered Jerusalem upon an Ass's 
colt. A seamless garment was about His holy, 
tender person. Meekness sat upon His face, The 
Innocence. In His Hand there was no Staff of 
Dignity: at His side no furbished sword, of Goliah, 
or Herod : no proclamation was heard as He crossed 



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Kidron to ascend Moriah. Behold the Conqueror 
cometh, that destroyeth the iron legs of Nebuchad- 
nezzar's image, and so let Zion rejoice ! Oh No ! 
A very different object altogether. "Thy King 
cometh ! Well, what is He ? 

u He is Just, having Salvation — 
He is lowly." 

What a hubbub; and even children crying Ho- 
sanna. Herod will send his men of war, and claim 
our temple. Cesar will come with all his forces, 
and destroy our nation. Their decision was, that 
Christ must die, or the Jews perish; and this was 
literal truth, but the people first concerned did not 
understand it; "for if they had known the wisdom 
of God in a mystery, they would not have crucified 
the Lord of Glory." The Blessed One had declared 
to the Pharisees in the temple, that His Father 
loved Him because He laid down his life, that he 
might take it again. The Pharisees (although they 
did believe in the resurrection of the body), re- 
jected this counsel of God: they did not believe 
that Jesus possessed Original Life in Himself, 
neither did they credit the assertion that God 
would approve of actual renunciation of life, upon 
,any principle, much less to take it again, if He had 
once offered it to God, for this seemed to be con- 
trary to the Law, and otherwise what could sacri- 
fice mean? 
But Christ, the King of Israel, He came to sac- 



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rifice His Life? What sort of deliverance is this 
for Zion? How can this Stone roll away our 
reproach ? Alas ! they stumbled and fell ; and 
with them (the Pharisees — the Religious in that 
day) fell the nation, and there they are to this 
day ! But ! Blessed be God ! their fall is not like 
Adam's : he fell upon the tree of knowledge of 
good and evil. Israel fell upon the tree of Life. 
In Adam's fall, death was in himself: in Israel's 
fall, death was in Christ, their substitute, provided 
by the God of the spirits of all flesh, who is the God 
of Israel, so that the reconciliation is " life from the 
dead !" But, how was death in Christ? He had 
Life in Himself; and yet death was in Him ! What 
a contradiction ! what foolishness ! 

Well, I ask, if Christ is the Lamb of God ? Does 
the Jew say nay ? Then the High Priest was a 
false prophet. The blood upon Israel's door posts, 
was Salvation to Israel ; and the Passover Lamb 
is remembered in the daily Sacrifice. Why has 
the latter ceased ? Because the former is fulfilled ! 
Yea or nay — Did the God of Israel by Moses, com- 
mand the -daily Sacrifice? What saith the scrip- 
ture, " Seven days shalt thou make an atonement 
for the altar." 

" Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon 
the altar ; two lambs of the first year" (the Eccle- 
siastical year, commencing with the Pasach,) day 
by day continually. 



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According to the words of this statute of the God 
of Israel, the rite of circumcision, as renewed by 
command of Joshua, at Israel's entrance into the 
holy Land, availeth not to constitute a man a Jew, 
without obedience to the commandments of God. 

Is it said that the altar is prostrate, the place of 
Sacrifice in captivity, and Israel dispersed to the 
four corners of the habitable globe : that ten tribes 
are not ; and two only are visible by name, and 
that these substitute charity for burnt offering ? 

I ask if the Law admits charity without an 
atonement for sin ? If man can work it this way, 
God does not ; for He requires atonement first, and 
His charity is distributive on that ground, so He 
delighted in Mercy that saves, and rejected Satan's 
sacrifice (the death of man) that charity might live 
forever. The doctrine of Atonement for sin with- 
out shedding of blood, is Cain's, who (with all his 
seed) was destroyed by the flood. Abel's offering 
" of the firstlings of the flock, with the fat thereof," 
was accepted by God, as the Lamb that taketh 
away sin ; and so it was with Noah after the flood ; 
and the Lord smelled a sweet savour ; but, Abra- 
ham was commanded to offer his beloved son. 
Abraham obeyed ; and the Lord redeemed Isaac, 
and Abraham received His Joy as alive from the 
dead, having faith that on that mountain God 
would provide Himself a Lamb for the whole burnt 
offering — viz. flesh, blood, wine, flour, oil. 

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Now I believe that death in Christ was Israel's 
sin ; His soul was made a sin offering ; and when 
He entered Jerusalem, amid the acclamations of 
praise for all His mighty works, and " Blessed be 
the King that cometh in the Name of the Lord, 
Peace in heaven, and Glory in the Highest," the 
Blessed One accepted the praise that fulfilled His 
Word, although His present mission He knew 
must end in pouring out His soul unto death, and 
that it would make peace in heaven for earth ; and 
bring Glory to the Highest for Redemption of the 
purchased possession, the throne of David, which 
involves the whole sum of restitution to God, since 
Messiah is appointed the Restorer, and the Heir of 
all things ; and by His reign of righteousness upon 
David's throne, Israel shall be called " the Repairer 
of the Breach" of the covenant of Life, for her 
Shepherd is the Destruction of death and hell. 

The title that Pilate wrote upon the cross over 
the sacred Head of the Lamb, was an efficient wit- 
ness, that He was made a curse for the kingdom, 
the kings, and the people of the Jews, whose tres- 
passes (see Daniel's confession in His prayer) had 
brought the curse on Jerusalem, the Lord's holy 
mountain ; and indeed their trespass had grown up 
unto heaven, for Jacob's Ladder was occupied by 
Royal offenders, and it must be cleared or the Ser- 
pent's Head be whole, and the Serpent beguile 
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Christ did not descend first upon that Ladder. 
He came in the Wind, as He left the bosom of the 
Father ; for the Ladder must be literal, and this we 
see by the types of His Kingly LoRDship, so Israel's 
Holy One took part of the flesh and blood of Zion's 
children (the infirmity), that He might go for them 
through Death's dark valley, and come out with 
Goliah's Head and Sword, Israel's Deliverer, and 
Judah's Lion, to take the prey — even Paradise. 

Now it is very plain that the first Advent of 
Christ was by the Holy Ghost, and yet in humilia- 
tion. In the second He comes the Son of man, 
and yet in power and great glory. In the first He 
received only a crown of thorns : in the second the 
Royal Diadem of universal Glory. 

In His first Advent, He closed His eyes in death : 
At the second. He will open them on Judah, and 
they shall know in that Day that the Glorious One 
is of themselves, and that their Governor is the 
second Man, the Lord from heaven, and their holy 
mountain is the garden of God, and they are cho- 
sen to shew forth the praise of the Righteous Ruler, 
whose goings forth have been from of old, from 
everlasting; and this glorious Advent of Christ, 
shall kindle a fire in Zion, and prepare a furnace 
in Jerusalem, that purifies, but can never destroy ; 
for it is the love of God, and treasured up in Christ, 
who wept for His city, and engraved her name in 
the palms of His hands forever; and "Father for- 



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give them" seals the decree, "I will remember 
their sin, and their iniquities no more." 

The Majesty, the Might, and the glory of the 
King, at His epiphany, and His Kingdom may be 
supposed to exceed the endurance of human sight, 
as even the prophet Daniel (a man greatly beloved), 
and John the disciple that leaned on Jesus' bosom 
at the supper, fell dead as it were at the sight of 
His person, and the sound of His voice. It may 
be said, if the manifestation in semblance of a vision 
to these devoted adorers of Messiah, was insup- 
portable to bodies charged with infirmity of natural 
flesh, how can the remnant just escaped from the 
claws of the Beast endure the reality ? 

Perhaps a very short answer might suffice, as 
" with God nothing shall be impossible ;" or else I 
might refer to the act of laying His right hand on 
Daniel and John to restore them. But I find much 
more than these conclusive arguments suggest, and 
the Word of the Lord is my testimony. 

1. "I will be as the Dew unto Israel." Hosea 
xiv. This is very different from a hail storm. 
The Dew in this beautiful verse of prophecy, de- 
notes all the fulness of grace to the elect in that 
Day, when the Lord their God, cometh to " save 
them as the flock of His people; and they shall be 
as stones of a crown lifted up as an ensign upon 
His land." For how great is His goodness, and 
how great is His beauty. 






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2. Israel " shall grow as the lily." 

This is very different from a Bay tree. How weak 
is the stem of a lily. It lays in the water, and the 
flower droops in expression of modesty and humi- 
lity. 

3. "He shall come down like rain upon the 
mown grass; and as showers that water the earth. 
The mown grass retains its position. It falls no 
lower; and showers refresh, not destroy. 

4. " As one whom his mother comforteth, so will 
I comfort you, and ye shall be comforted in Jerusa- 
lem." 

Will a mother venture to frighten her baby? 
But let us turn to the case of poor afflicted Job 
(sorrowful) and learn something for good. Now 
in the first place we know that Israel's deliverance 
from the iron furnace, was preceded by great ad- 
versity. Beside their own peculiar sufferings, they 
had to witness the terrible judgments that God sent 
upon Egypt. It is written (and remains yet to be 
fulfilled), that it shall come to pass in the Day (when 
the Lord shall destroy the Beast, see Isaiah xxvii.) 
that the Great Trumpet shall be blown, and they 
shall come which were ready to perish, &c. 

Now let us attend to Job's desolate state. 

" He hath cast me into the mire, 
And I am become like dust and ashes. 
I am a brother to dragons (followers of the Beast), 
I am a companion to owls (they see not in the day.) 
My skin is black upon me, 
And my bones are burned with heat." 



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Job speaks of the ungodly youth in that day : 

11 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters, 
In the desolations they rolled themselves upon me. 
Terrors are turned upon me, 
They pursue my soul as the wind, 
And my welfare passeth away as a cloud." 

When Job had ended his complaint, young Elihu 
(He is my God) addressed him. After Elihu, the 
Lord spake to Job out of the whirlwind; and then 
He appeared to Job. What is the result ? 
Job answered the Lord, 

44 1 have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear, 
But now mine eye seeth Thee. 
Wherefore I abhor myself, 
And repent in dust and ashes." 

Then the Lord turned the captivity of Job, 

Also the Lord gave Job twice as much as before. 

I will now suggest an idea likewise, of the ten- 
der manner in which the Good Shepherd will ap- 
proach His wounded, sickly, diseased, poor, feeble, 
frighted sheep in the Great Day, by Joseph for a 
type. Joseph is the governor of Egypt, and his 
brethren stand before him in distress. 

" Cause every man to go out from me." 
Joseph was alone with his brethren, but 

" They knew not that it was Joseph." 
Now, I propose Jesus in the same way. Remem- 
ber He used to take His disciples apart from the 
multitude. 

! hear the Stranger, Israel hear — 



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I am Jesus, your Saviour, betrayed for silver, 

I am David your Shepherd, 

From whom you have strayed: 

I am Shiloh your Peace, I am Christ your Re- 
deemer, 

I freely forgive you, be not afraid. 
Glorious theme!! It is the crown of prophecy. 
Christ is the Jew in heaven. Christ will be Christ 
upon earth; and the throne of David is the throne 
of His Glory; and that throne is the throne of His 
Judgment, by appointment of the Father, even 
forever and ever, in a world without end. "The 
zeal of the Lord of hosts" secures this. 

The Adamic reign upon the earth is one part, or 
Branch, in which The Man bears rule, " with Jus- 
tice and Judgment and Equity." In this department 
of Christ's reign upon the throne of David, the 
second Man, and His help meet, " the Mother of 
all living," fulfil the first commandment that ever 
God exhibited to His image upon the earth. And 
this is accomplished, not after the law of a carnal 
commandment, but after the power of an endless 
Life, so that the terms, " dress and keep," coming 
after "subdue it," carried about in the hand of a 
little child (Faith in God) over mountains of sup- 
posed impossibilities, through the broad land of 
original holy prophecy, are dropped at the feet of 
the Lamb, upon the golden bottom of King Solo- 
mon's Chariot, in the midst of the Pavement of 



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Love, which is for Jerusalem's daughters, saying, 
Thou hast done it; and Thou alone art worthy to 
receive glory and honour and power, that God may 
be all in all. Now go forth, ye daughters of 
Zion, and behold King Solomon, with the crown 
wherewith His mother crowned Him in the Day 
of His espousals, and in the Day of the gladness. of 
His heart. Yea, depend upon it, that before the 
marriage of the Lamb, He receives Creation's 
Crown; and Jerusalem is the Praise of that Crown. 
It is written, " I will lay thy foundations with Sap- 
phires (see what this represents in Exodus xxiv. 
10) and in all the foundations (Twelve) are written 
the names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb, 
which is their crown of glory, that fadeth not away. 
The gates are twelve pearls, named 

1. Reuben. 2. Judah. 3. Levi. 

K 1. Vision of the Son. 2. Praise of the Lord. 3. United. ) 

I These three Gates are to face northward. J 

4. Joseph. 5. Benjamin. 6. Dan. 

54. Increase. 5. Son of the right hand. 6. Judgment. ) 
These three gates to face eastward. £ 

7. Simeon. 8. Issachar. 9. Zebulon. 

S7. Obeying. 8. Reward. 9. Dwelling. ) 
These three gates to face southward. ( 
10. Gad. 11. Asher. 12. Naphtali. 
J 10. Happiness. 11. Blessed. 12. Likeness. ) 
I These three gates to face westward. \ 

Wonderful, Counsellor, Everlasting Father, 
Jehovah, Most Mighty, and great Prince of Peace, 
What a work is decreed when the tribes thou shall gather 
In the Day of fair Zion and Joseph's release. 



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The Sword of bright flame Thou wilt take in thy hand, 

And pass by the Cherubs to enter Thy Land. 

By the way of the East Thy great Glory shall come, 

To gather thy flock, and to sit on Thy throne. 

There Praise waits for Thee, O Thou bearer of prayer, 

And the vow is performed unto Abraham's heir, 

The Lamb that was slain and yet liveth again, 

Is Seen in the Mount, Alleluia, Amen. 



The Adamic (or 1000 years) reign of Christ upon 
David's throne, commences, I believe, in the man- 
ner described by Moses in Deuteronomy, thirty- 
third chapter. I mean the restoration of the Law, 
which seemed to have been lost out of the heart of 
every kingly type, in some part of their reign upon 
the throne of the Beloved ; and but for Christ com- 
ing by Breath, and sustaining it, according to His 
holy Exposition, that transcript of the Divine cha- 
racter might have expired in Babylon the Mystery. 
Christ hath hid the Law in His lowly, obedient 
heart, and at His return from his far Journey, ta 
bless His people with peace, He will give to them 
that One heart, after washing them in the fountain 
opened for them, upon His cross; and will lead 
them in One Way, the obedience of Love ; for Love 
is the fulfilling of the Law; and the love of Christ 
reflected on Israel, renders the latter fair as the 
moon, and by the indwelling of His fiery Law, 
they shine clear as the sun, and in Holiness of the 
Lord are terrible as an army with banners. 



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The preparations for this reign of 1000 years,* 
seem to involve the great and dreadful Day of 
the Lord, which expressions startle a distant be- 
holder, as though Jerusalem is destroyed, rather 
than restored at His second coming into this world. 
Now it appears that a little child is not content to 
view his father's new Chariot from the Attic of 
the house. He descends the stairs, and will run 
out, and go all round it, and beg to get inside, that 
he may see all its beauty. An elder brother may 
laugh at him then ; but take both together among 
strangers that never saw the chariot, and which of 
them, can describe it most truly ? 

I confess I am such a fool, that I have tried to 
look at the Chariot of King Solomon through 
spectacles.! I thought (for some years) they were 
Christian ; but on reading Mr. WolfFs Letter on 
the second Advent, I said, the spectacles are not 
good; and I relinquished them, and prayed that 
my eyes might be strengthened, &c. For the last 
thirteen years I have run after this Chariot, inquiring 
what is the length thereof, and the breadth thereof, 
and concerning its durability. The latter I sup- 
posed might be resolved according to the object of 
its erection, and the measure by a reed of linen, 
and a rod of Gold. So I said at last the length is 
forever; and the breadth is forever, and the 

* See Moses' prayer, Psalm xc ; and 2 Peter iii. 8. t Expositors. 






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height is Heaven. I have watched it so long, that 
when the heavens and earth (just made) vanished 
away, I seemed not even to marvel that the Chariot 
(Great and White*) remained, with one upon it, 
from whose face the earth and heavens that were 
first made, fled away ; and I said, but where are 
the children? And the answer was, "In the secret 
Place of the Most High." And under the shadow 
of the Almighty. This cried I, is Great Salvation, 
and recollected my Saviour's declaration to the 
woman at Jacob's well. 

In the midst of discoveries of my nothingness 
beyond even unworthiness, which is a reward for 
digging after pearls, exactly suited to the sinner 
contrite, and the sinner believing, I have never 
been reproved by the Word of God, for reading 
Him without Spectacles, so I pursue my course (as 
a fool) and do verily shudder at the sacrilege that 
has been committed (in the Name of Christianity) 
against His Sacred body, (personal), His elect 
body (relative), and His Glorious Name Immanuel. 

In regard to our Lord's human nature, I should 
suppose that any person who had been quickened 
by the Spirit of Grace, drawn to the Saviour by 
the bands of love (the Father in Christ) and heard 
the soul cherishing words, thy sins are forgiven 
thee, could hardly fight against the doctrine of 
His personal reign upon David's throne, seeing it 

*Rev. xx. 11. 



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is the joy set before Him for which He endured 
the cross, despising the shame, and is now set 
down at the right hand of the Majesty in the hea- 
vens, from thence expecting till His enemies be 
made His footstool, i. e. be humble at His feet, 
confessing Him Adonai, to the Glory of God the 
Father. 

The Man Christ Jesus is the second from Adam 
in innocence ; and the kingdom Adam ruined by 
his fall, Christ is appointed to restore, and so awful 
is the destruction, that even Gethsemane, Calvary, 
and the glorious ministration of the Holy Ghost, 
have not cleared the way, the high way of restitu- 
tion, and vengeance must have precedence of the 
acceptable year: "I will repay saith the Lord." 
Our Lord at His return in the times of restitution, 
is certainly represented by prophecy of the Holy 
Ghost, as a man of war, the Lord of hosts is His 
Name ; and for what, and for whom, does He 
open the magazines of vengeance? Against 
whom does He draw the Bow of his Anger? 
Against whom fly the thunderbolts of his terror? 

What saith the Scripture? 

"Thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, 
Like as the Lion and the young lion roaring on his prey. 
When a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, 
He will not be afraid of their voice, 
Nor abase Himself for the noise of them. 
So shall the Lord of hosts come down, 
To fight for Mount Zion, 
And for the hill thereof." 



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Query. Is not this literal in plain sense ? 

Now see how Jerusalem is preserved in that 
Day. "As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts 
defend Jerusalem; defending also He will deliver 
it; and passing over, He will preserve it*" Isaiah 
xxx. 5. I regard this verse, and a part of the 
ninth chapter of Zechariah, as testimony of the 
epiphany that precedes the second Advent of our 
Lord, according to the apostle Paul, first revealed 
in flaming fire, and then descending. Our Lord 
spake of the Sign of the Son of Man, followed by His 
coming; and Zechariah says, "The Lord shall be 
seen over them :" then His arrows " go like light- 
ning ;" and "the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, 
and shall go with whirlwinds of the South." It 
appears to me that His people will have trouble 
in Egypt, for there the Beast has entire power.* 
See Dan. xi. 43. Wherever Israel and Judah are 
captives (I mean the remnants elect) " the Lord 
of hosts shall defend them," during the great con- 
fusion and uproar of the Beastly kingdom in 
Satan's great wrath, when ambassadors are sent 
to a people scattered and peeled, to force them 
to yield homage to Abaddon Apollyon, I think 
the Lord is then encamped over Jerusalem, as 
represented in Isaiah xviii.; and the expressions 
" when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is 

* In the short time of Satan's great wrath. 

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ripening in the flower/' look to me like the height 
of Satan's work by the Beast and the false prophet ; 
and then the Lord says, "I will take my Rest/' 
which is Zion : I will take it who shall hinder me ; 
and He puts in His pruning hooks : sends terrible, 
awful Judgments to cut off the sprigs, (the army 
of the Beast), and then He takes away both the 
branches of Satan, the Beast and the false prophet. 
At that juncture our Lord is represented as 
* riding upon the heavens as upon a horse/' and 
in the Apocalypse He is revealed from heaven sit- 
ting upon a white horse, and the Beast, the Man 
of sin is upon a red horse, and he attempts to 
fight with the Lamb. 

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The Lord hath said to us by Isaiah the prophet, 
that "even the captives of the mighty shall be 
taken away ; and the prey of the terrible shall 
be delivered, for I will contend with him that con- 
tendeth with thee, and I will save thy children." 

Who is the Lord ? Answer. " The Redeemer 
of Israel, and his (Israel's) Holy one, (Messiah). 
To whom does He speak ? Answer. To His peo- 
ple. To His afflicted. 

" But Zion saith, The Lord hath forsaken me. 

" And my Lord hath forgotten me." 
Then the Lord saith, " Can a woman forget her 
sucking child, that she should not have compassion 
on the son of her womb ?" 



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"Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget 
thee," 

" Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of 
my hands ; thy walls are continually before me." 

" Thus saith the Lord God, Behold I will lift up 
my Hand to the Gentiles,* and set up my stand- 
ard (" Banner, viz. Christ's Love,) to the people ; 
and they — (who ? See Isaiah lx. 9, 2, Is Tarshish 
within the boundaries of the Holy Land?) "shall 
bring thy sons in their ams, and thy daughters shall 
be carried upon their shoulders ?" 

The next verse represents the last Anti-Christ. 
Now read the last verse of the chapter. 

" I will feed them that oppress thee with their 
own flesh, and they shall be drunken with their 
own blood, as with sweet wine ; (say, is this a civil 
war ?) and all flesh shall know, that I the Lord 
am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer the Mighty 
One of Jacob." 

Perhaps some person may say to me, go to the 
Apostle Paul to be taught better. This is a chal- 
lenge ; and I accept. I go to Paul ; and I ask Paul, 
! thou primitive soldier of the cross of Christ 

* In reversing God's order, nominal distinctions are obsolete 
among other things relating to the affairs of God. I therefore hum- 
bly ask, who are the Gentiles, (Goine) in fulfilment. I know who 
they are in prophecy. If Christians are Judah, Israel, and Zion, 
are Jews, the Goine ? Please read Job's complaint, and the 
Lamentations of Jeremiah. 



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among the nations ! (I believe in thy Divine Com- 
mission. I accept the literality, an Ambassador of 
the King of the Jews.) Canst thou teach me a 
better faith than the literal fulfilment of the Holy 
Scriptures? Paul. What saith the Scripture? 
" Abraham believed God." " Let God be true, and 
every man a liar." 

" Whatsoever things were written aforetime, 
were written for our learning, that we through pa- 
tience and comfort of the Scriptures might have 
hope." I have three lessons from the Great 
Apostle. I must study them by the rule, and then 
I shall ask Paul a plain question. 

1. What saith the Scripture, concerning the ful- 
filment of original prophecy ? 

" As the rain cometh down, and the snow from 
Heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth 
the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that 
it may give seed to the sower and bread to the 
eater ; so shall my word be that goeth forth out of 
my mouth : it shall not return unto me void, but it 
shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall 
prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." 

Rain and snow are literal in this passage, and set 
forth comparatively, and not figuratively. Rain is 
vapour exhaled by the sun, and is made into drops, 
and sent down to commemorate the flood, for be- 
fore the flood, a dew watered the whole face of the 
ground. Snow is vapour in its original, but returns 



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in a frigid atmosphere, and is a covering for the 
earth, except dissolved by rays of the sun. "Drought 
and heat consume the snow waters ;" but who 
commands the sun, or the heat, or the drought ? 
Who " saith to the snow be thou on the earth, and 
to the small rain fall, and to the great rain pour ? 
And the object of sending rain and snow what 
is it ?" 

And what is the intention of prophecy ? Is it to 
deceive, to ensnare, to beguile ? God forbid ! 
Prophecy is foretelling events that concern God and 
His creation. It portrays events of promise and of 
threatening. It tells before hand what God will 
do, and what shall be done ; and Peter says in old 
time it came by the Holy Ghost ; and Paul says, 
God spake to the fathers ; and both of them agree 
that Jesus Christ come in the flesh, is the sure 
Word of prophecy ; and His testimony is the soul 
of prophecy, so I learn my lesson verbatim, that 
Abraham believed that Sarah should have a son ; 
and Sarah had a son of her own ; not one that she 
begged, borrowed, or bought of a stranger, much 
less stole away from her neighbour. 

I believe that God gave to Abraham all the land 
of Canaan; and that Abraham's seed (called in 
Isaac) shall inherit the land, upon which Abraham 
stood upon his two feet, or else kneeled down, or 
else was prostrate upon his face, before the Loup j 



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and Abraham asked a sign from the Lord, whereby 
he should know his title to the land was sure. 

And the Lord said, " Take me a heifer of three 
years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a 
ram of three years old, and a turtle dove, and a 
young pigeon." 

Now Abraham obeyed all this ; and God made 
a covenant with Abraham, who by obedience of 
faith had made a covenant with the Lord by 
sacrifice : of course the word " Gather together my 
saints unto me, that have made a covenant with me 
by sacrifice, has special reference to the object of the 
covenant, a land inheritance ; and as Abraham was 
told by the Lord of the land to look up, and tell 
the stars, if he could number them, saying " So 
shall thy seed be," I am bound to believe that the 
Lord certainly fixed the literal to the literal, and 
now we may find the literal inheritors of the literal 
soil, where Abraham watched the Lord's sacrifice, 
in the thirteenth and fourteenth verses of Genesis, 
fifteenth chapter. 

" And he said unto Abraham (at that time called 
Abram) know of a surety, that thy seed shall be a 
stranger in a land that is not theirs ; and shall serve 
them; and they shall afflict them four hundred 
years : 

* And also that nation, whom they shall serve, 
I will judge ; and afterward they shall come out 
with great substance." 



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A notable prophecy ! fulfilled to the letter. 

There is one particular in this lesson, that I think 
of importance, while the spiritual descendant of 
Cornelius may disregard it entirely. 

Abram, signifies high father ; and Abraham the 
father of many nations. The land covenant was 
made with Abram ; and to the high father is given 
the promise of a great multitude that should inherit 
the land. This literal covenant of earthly blessings 
is made with Abram, for Isaac, who (as a type of 
Christ) submitted to be bound on the altar, rather 
than God should be displeased, and be dishonoured; 
and after Abraham's death, the Lord appeared to 
Isaac at Beersheba (well of the oath,) and blessed 
him for Abraham's sake. 

Isaac was a type of Christ in his gracious be- 
haviour toward the King of the Philistines, who 
heard at Gerar, that the stranger he had insulted in 
his own dominions, was in great prosperity at 
Beersheba ; and came to Isaac and begged an oath 
from him of safety to himself and his people. Isaac 
made a feast for the Gentile king, his friend, and 
Phicot, chief captain of his army, and gave them a 
night's lodging ; the next morning Isaac sent them 
away. If you will, you may discern that this scene 
is a faint type of the honour that will be ascribed to 
Zion's King, in the day of His sitting in His dwell- 
ing place, to keep a sabbath that remains for the 
people of God. It is written of Zion, that the Gen- 



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tiles shall come to her Light, and Kings to the 
Brightness of her* Resurrection, saying, Thou art 
fairer than the children of men : grace is poured 
into thy lips, therefore God hath blessed thee 
forever. 

These things were written for our learning, if we 
are disciples of Christ ; and it is our privilege to be 
His disciples, seeing the whole Record God hath 
made of His Son, is placed in our hands for a pledge 
that He is willing to teach us in the School of Grace. 

A privilege involves a benefit; and the latter 
obligation; and the conclusion is, responsibility, 
and after this a reckoning, at the end of which is 
Judgment, and the latter represents Destiny. 

At this moment, my eye glances, (almost intui- 
tively) on the throne of England; and I am bound 
to render thanks to Him who only shall be praised, 
that the setting of that "bright Occidental Star/' 
Queen Elizabeth, did not seal up the horizon of 
reformation in gloom of night; for the constella- 
tions that sparkled in England's heaven by com- 
mand of the servant James, have exhibited a lumi- 
nous globe encircled with the gems of prophecy, 
that belong only to King Jesus, the Christ of God; 
and for Him, shine upon God's Elect! 

I have the Bible of the Reformation; and upon 
earth it is my dearest privilege to know, that in 

* Messiah is the Resurrection, as he is the Existence. 



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the stammering language placed on my infant 
tongue, is that blissful sound, Salvation, ascribed to 
the Lamb of God, that was slain to take away the 
sin of the world. The satisfaction (here expressed), 
of reading " the things that were written afore- 
time/ 5 in English only, need not be construed into 
irreverence of the language given to our ancient 
parents in Paradise, and delivered to the chosen 
people, with the Sabbath, as relics of the Lord 
God, preserved in the fall of Adam, and delivered 
from the wreck of the tower; for my contention in 
testimony is against every mode of interpretation 
but the very literal expression of God's Covenant 
purpose, that the people He brought up out of 
Egypt; and led by Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, 
through the wilderness, introduced into the pro- 
mised land by Joshua, and now scattered and dis- 
persed for their sins, are decreed to be His people 
forever. By conviction of truth, I can testify to 
the sanctity of Hebrew Language, as of Hebrew 
Land, and believe one is the beloved speech, and 
the other is the beloved soil of the Lord God; and 
I believe that both land and language will be 
restored by the Saviour of Israel, in One Day. 
Then will the holy Oracles speak into circumcised 
ears, and Israel shall respond, 

" I will praise thy Name, 
For thy loving kindness, and for thy truth, 
For thou hast magnified thy Word above all thy Name." 

My satisfaction in the Protestant Translation of 



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the Holy Scriptures, from Genesis to Malachi, is 
not alloyed by any distrust concerning the original 
Mover of the Work, or to the work of translation, 
for 1 believe it was God, who pitied His suffering 
Truth among the Gentiles ; and intended to use a 
partial Reformation, for purposes of Grace that 
relate to "the day of small things." 

As to the New Testament, I have this to say 
plainly, and faithfully. 
The records of 

Nazareth, 

Bethlehem, 

Egypt, 

Jerusalem, 

Jordan, 
The Wilderness, 

Gethsemane, 

Calvary, 
The Sepulchre, 
The Mount of Olives; 
and a mine of rich Jewels from 

" Repent ye, and believe the Gospel," 
unto " Go, teach all nations," are true to the Letter, 
preserved miraculously through the times of Rab- 
binical opposition, and the darkest Age of Christ- 
endom; and I am content with the English speech 
of the Glorious Gospel of God. I love it too; for 
while it declares in my conscience that I am 
damned, it proclaims with equal force, that in 
Jesus Christ I am saved. 



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But in the Epistles of Paul, the Great Apostle of 
Jesus Christ according to the faith of God's elect, 
there are certain quotations of holy scripture that 
are not equal; and most particularly I shall cite to 
the following, 

" I regarded them not saith the Lord." 
Compare this clause of the ninth verse of the 
eighth chapter to the Hebrews, with the Word of 
the Lord by, as first to, the prophet Jeremiah, 

" Although I was a husband unto them saith the 
Lord." See 31, 32. 

Before I ask the Apostle that question, as I men- 
tioned after receiving the three lessons, I beg leave 
to state, that the Covenant of God with the children 
of Israel, is a marriage Covenant, and was never 
broken on the part of the Lord, much less struck 
off from the sacred page, by the vocation of the 
Gentiles to hear the Gospel of Christ. Never was 
a bill of divorcement written, or dictated by the 
Lord God, that put Jerusalem away out of His 
sight. The transgressions of Judah caused the 
Lord to do what He hates, even to give the 
beloved of His soul into the hands of her enemies; 
and the revival of his wrath consequent on the 
usurpation of the last Desolator, brings desolation, 
and destruction, and the famine, and the sword, 
upon the holy city; but the desolation is only to 
spoil the false kingdom, that will bring the famine 
and sword, and the destruction is not utter destruc- 



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tion upon Jerusalem, for she is a brand plucked 
out of the fire that is kindled for Anti-Christ, by 
the wrath of the Lamb. 

Now I desire to propose a question to Paul. 
Illustrious descendant of Rachel! I ask, is Jeru- 
salem an Allegory in the Restoration by the Second 
man? 

Answer. The covenant upon Mount Sinai gen- 
dered to bondage because of the weakness of the 
flesh ; and this weakness was manifested by Israel's 
taking upon herself the responsibility of keeping 
the Covenant, independent of grace from the Lord; 
instead of the obedience of faith, she trusted in the 
flesh, and fell ; of course, by Sinai's Covenant is a 
Bond woman; but Jerusalem above, that is free, 
and is the mother of us all, is the Covenant of 
Grace, above Sinai for she is in Christ, and comes 
in Him from Heaven to earth, to establish Jeru- 
salem upon the earth for Glory and praise to the 
Lord of hosts; and to the Restoration of Jerusalem 
I looked while quoting Isaiah's prophetic address 
to th$ captive ; for in my mission to the Gentiles I 
must report Jerusalem a widow, and that she is 
barren, while the Name of her King is called upon 
the Gentiles, during their times. Many more, 
indeed, are her children already, than she who now 
calls Jesus her Lord; for Cornelius has had very 
little increase to his family, because of the working 
of many Anti-Christs, and false teachers, and be- 



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side, when the Son of Man cometh shall He find 
faith on the earth ? 

I am perfectly satisfied ; and I see the force of 
Paul's admonition to the church at Rome. 
"Be not high minded but fear." 
Perhaps there is not a more decided testimony in 
all the holy Scriptures, to bear down the pride of 
the wild olive, graffed into a good olive tree con- 
trary to nature, than is exhibited in Romans xi. 
13-36. 

There remains a question to propose to the pre- 
sent churches called Christian, whether Protestant 
or Dissenter, in this country. 

Are they, (or are they not) in fellowship with 
the doctrine of their great Apostle, that the Man of 
sin is to be revealed when the hindrance to Zion's 
rise from the dust, is taken out of the way? That 
Jerusalem is to remain unclean while the times of 
the Gentiles last, we have no just reason to doubt ; 
for what is the meaning of "trodden down;" and 
that Jerusalem is to be cleansed we are directly 
informed by the Word of God. 
" I will turn my Hand (my Spirit) upon thee," 

And purely purge away thy dross, 

And take away all thy tin : 

And I will restore thy Judges 

As at the first ; 

And thy Counsellors 

As at the beginning, 
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Afterward thou shalt be called the city of right- 
eousness, the faithful city. 
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, 
And her converts with righteousness." 
" In that day shall the Branch of the Lord be 
beautiful and glorious; and the fruit of the earth 
shall be excellent and comely," 

" For — them — that — are escaped of Israel," 
" A remnant shall be saved." 

In that Day the Lord alone shall be exalted : 
" the terrible one is brought to nought, the scorner 
consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut 
off: that make a man an offender for a word, and 
lay a snare for Him that reproveth in the Gate ; 
and turn aside the Just for a thing of nought." 

" In that day shall the deaf hear the words of 
the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of 
obscurity, and out of darkness. The meek shall 
rejoice in the Lord, and the poor among men shall 
praise the Holy One of Israel. 

" Lebanon (in that day) shall be turned into a 
fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed 
as a forest; for Babylon, Greece, Persia, and Rome, 
which involve the four quarters of dominion of the 
Gentiles, are broken to pieces, and destroyed. 

Zion rises from the dust; and putteth on her 
Strength. Jerusalem is arrayed in her beautiful 
garments of praise, all redeemed without money. 
Her watchmen shall lift up the Voice; for they 



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shall see eye to eye, when the Lord bringeth 
again Zion. For then the Spirit is poured from on 
high, in the coming of the Kingdom of God, by 
Jesus Christ, and the eyes of them that see shall 

HOt be dim; and the ears of them that hear shall 

rken. The heart also of the rash shall under- 
stand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers 
shall be ready to speak plainly." 

Those are blessed words, "One King shall be 
King to them all;" when that King roigncth, God 
sitteth upon the throne of J lis holiness, in the per- 
son of Jesus Christ, for lie hath said, "My taber- 
nacle shall be with them;" yea, it is written " That 
Man* shall be as a hiding place from the wind, 
and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water 
in a dry place, as the Shadow of a great Rock in a 
weary land." 

It is plain truth to the simple hearted Literalist, 
that at the setting up of Christ's Kingdom upon 
the earth, is Judgment on the unclean; and that in 
Zion, it is the Lord's furnace, (not N.'s) and in 
Jerusalem, it is the Lord's fire, the effect is sanc- 
tification unto holiness of the Lord's people in 
Him, so the Kingdom is progressive, under His 
forming hand ; and He proceeds in his work of 
toring, in the way of subduing, and bringeth down 
every self-exalting thought in His people, not per- 

* N. B. "That Man:" See verse 1, "Behold a King shall 
reign," &c. 



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mitting them to glory in any thing but the know- 
ledge of Him ; and when even the weak shall be 
as David, and the strong shall be as God, i. e. the 
house of David shall resemble the Angel of the 
Covenant, they shall say, "The Lord is my Strength 
and Power: He maketh my way perfect;" and their 
shouting is 

" The Lord is King forever and ever. 
The heathen are perished out of His land." 

But it is plain, that the subjects of the Adamic 
Kingdom, are kept, (as well as brought) under the 
rule of Christ, their King, by dependance on Him, 
who is " glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, 
doing wonders ;" and, as in that day, the house of 
Jacob all know the Lord, and know Him in Christ, 
who was made under the law according to the 
flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with 
power, by His resurrection from the dead, they 
are willing to praise Him for all they enjoy, as 
ready to serve Him in new obedience. Indeed, 
though at the coming of Christ, they are men in 
the flesh, in the work of regeneration, they become 
as little children by the New Spirit He puts within 
them, and taking root downward, (in the original 
lowliness of their King,) they bear fruit upward to 
the praise of His Name, and thus go on from 
strength to strength, until every one in Zion ap- 
peareth before God. 

1 look on the mission of Paul, the Apostle of the 



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Gentiles, as a lively representation of his nation 
serving Christ, in the acceptable Year ; and they 
shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble. 

While strangers stand and feed their flocks, and 
the sons of the alien shall be their ploughmen and 
their vine dressers, the children of Zion shall be 
named " The priests of the Lord ; and men shall 
call them the Ministers of Zion's God; and by 
them the Lord God will cause righteousness and 
praise to spring forth before all nations. They 
shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace; 
the mountains and the hills shall break forth before 
them into singing, and every thing that hath breath 
shall praise the Lord." 

It will indeed be a glorious day, when the Spirit 
is poured upon all flesh, restoring the image of 
God, upon every subject of the Adamic reign, and 
even delivering the whole creation from the first 
death. The thorn and the briar shall come up no 
more ; but instead thereof shall grow up the fir 
tree, the pine, and the box tree together. In the 
wilderness the Lord will set the cedar, the myrtle 
and the oil tree ; and the desert shall rejoice and 
blossom as the rose. Rivers shall be open in high 
places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys : 
the wilderness shall be as a pool, and the dry land 
springs of water. The birds of paradise will re- 
new their song, when the summer of Israel's 



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Hope, shall strew fair Eden with flowers, and the 
Voice of the turtle is heard in Immanuel's land. 

" No lion shall be there ;" for he is changed to a 
lamb, and yet eateth straw like the ox. The cow 
and the bear feed together, of one peaceable make; 
and their young ones lie down side by side — 

The venom of the Asp is extinct, it can charm 
to death no more. The cockatrice will dazzle to 
blind no more. The fiery flying serpent shall feed 
on dust. 

The sons and daughters of Zion shall prophecy 
in that day, when the scales fall from their eyes, 
and the veil is taken from Moses' face, and a plenti- 
ful rain from the Lord confirms His beloved Zion. 

According to the Word of the Lord, this King- 
dom will commence with the poor, even the rem- 
nant of Israel, although the Lord opens His eyes 
on Judah, and saves the tents of Judah first ; and 
upon David's house pours the spirit of repentance 
and prayer ; yet Ephraim in the Glory, is declared 
the First born ; and the strength of David's Head. 
I am brought (unexpectedly) to meet a subject that 
is as replete with mystery, as now with interest, 
for the time of Jacob's trouble is near, very near, 
out of which, a remnant of Judah, a remnant of 
Joseph, a remnant of Ephraim, a remnant of Jacob, 
a remnant of Israel, shall be saved in the flesh, and 
shall be gathered unto the Shiloh, who will make 
them one nation, and cause them to dwell in their 
own land. — The Ten tribes ! Where are they? 






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" A nation, and a company of nations shall be 
of thee," said the Lord to Jacob at Bethel ; and 
kings shall come out of thy loins." 

Now this great man had twelve sons ; and he 
blessed them all by the Spirit of prophecy, and 
spoke to them of the last days. According to the 
word of the blessing of each, Israel blessed his 
twelve sons, and charged them to bury him with 
his ancestors. Previous to this solemn meeting, 
the inspired Prince had bequeathed the birthright 
to Joseph's youngest son, and laying his hands 
upon the heads of both, Jacob Israel bequeathed to 
them the Royal title of Prince with God, declared 
the youngest set first in the kingdom, and that his 
seed should become a multitude of nations, com- 
manding that in these two Names, Ephraim and 
Manasseh, Israel shall bless, saying God make thee 
as Ephraim and Manasseh. 

It is impossible to reverse, to vary, or to annul 
this prophetic blessing. It is on the record of faith, 
which is the evidence of things not seen. 

It must come to pass in the last days. 

It must be fulfilled in the Ages to come. 

It must be accomplished in the reign of Blessings. 

1. In the last days, Shiloh of Judah, which is 
the Rock of Israel, the Shepherd from God, is pro- 
mised to all the posterity, L e. tribes of Israel, and 
that the gathering of the people is unto Him, and 
He is the crown of Joseph's Head. 



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From the death of Solomon unto this day, the 
children of Ephraim, and the children of Judah 
have been separated from each other, and from the 
sixth year of Hezekiah (strength of the Lord) unto 
this day, the ten tribes that were given to Ephraim, 
have been exiles from the Lord's land. 

Hezekiah had sent letters to the separate king- 
dom, to invite all of Ephraim and Manasseh to 
come up to Jerusalem, to keep the Lord's pass- 
over; and the posts of the righteous king of Judah 
went from city to city, through all the coasts of 
Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulon; "but 
they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them." 

"The scorner is an abomination to men ;" and 
what must he be in the eyes of the Lord ? Heze- 
kiah did not ask Ephraim to pay tribute to David's 
throne, but to render praise to David's Lord. He 
wrote, "yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter 
into His Sanctuary, which He hath sanctified (set 
apart for His Name)" forever, and serve the Lord 
your God, that the fierceness of His wrath may 
turn away from you. For, if ye turn again unto 
the Lord, your brethren* and your children shall 
find compassion before them that lead them cap- 
tive, so that they shall come again into this land ; 
for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, 
and will not turn away His face from you if ye 
return unto Him." 

* See 2 Kings xv. 29. 



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This appeal from the hand of a righteous King 
upon David's throne, must not be made in vain. 
If it is not respected, it becomes a savour of death. 
The decision remains with Israel's king. He 
rejected, and the plumb line that Amos saw, is 
stretched over Samaria, while Hezekiah yet reigned 
in Jerusalem: "Israel was led away captive out of 
their own land ;" and from that day unto this 
time, "the high places of Isaac are desolate/' for 
Ephraim has the birthright ; and even the Ark of 
the Covenant is robbed by the Gentiles of the beau- 
tiful curtains of fine twined linen, of blue, and 
purple, and scarlet, for Israel's son had set at noon. 

The ten tribes. Where are they ? 

It is written that Shalmanezer, king of Assyria, 
carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them 
in Halah, Habor, and the cities of the Medes, 
where they might suffer with their brethren, that 
were driven out before the plumb line was stretched 
over the guilty city ; and "her king was cut off as 
foam upon the water." The siege of Samaria, 
and its capture by Shalmanezer, with his disposal 
of the tribes he carried away into a heathen land, 
concludes the history of the kings of Israel; "and 
the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, 
and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Sepha- 
naim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria, 
instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed 
Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof." 



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What has become of those tribes? Are they 
incorporated with the Assyrians, and reckoned 
among heathen nations? Impossible. The God 
of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, came unto 
Balaam, and said, "The word which I shall say 
unto thee, that shalt thou do." "And the Lord 
put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, thus shalt 
thou speak." 

The answer of Balaam's tongue to Balak's com- 
mand, was from the Lord, although in his heart 
there was no preparation of grace ; for he said to 
the king of Moab, "have I any power at all?" If 
Balaam had been dumb, the ass would have spo- 
ken ; but to the heathen king man must speak, and 
the ass be silent ; for it is not the prerogative of 
wicked Balaam's ass, upon which he rode, to pro- 
claim the word of the Lord. The ass reproved 
Balaam, that was her part. She was Balaam's 
beast. 

And Balaam "took up his parable, and said, 

"Balak (destroyer) king of Moab (of his father) 
hath brought me from Aram (Syria) out of the 
mountains of the east, saying, come curse me Jacob, 
and come defy me Israel. 

" How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed ? 
or How shall I defy, whom the Lord* hath not defied ? 
For, from the top of the rocks I see Him, 
And from the hills I behold Him : 

* Father forgive. Luke xxii. 






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Lo ! the people shall dwell alone, 

And shall not be reckoned among the nations." ("For, 
unto me the children of Israel are servants." Lev. xxv. 55.) 

Wherever Israel exists, she must be alone. 

Let us examine the Cabinet of her Mercy. Let 
us look into the heart of prophecy. If the ten 
tribes are stationary, prophecy will show it. 

By the Word of the Lord to Hosea, Ephraim 
was threatened that they should return into Egypt, 
and eat unclean things in Assyria. 

Again Ephraim is doomed to be "wanderers 
among the nations;" and again, "they shall wander 
from sea to sea." If this is the fate of the Outcast 
from the Lord's land, that is designated Ephraim, 
then we are not authorized to search for them in 
any cities of the Medes, nor by the river Gozan, 
nor in any of the Ottoman dominions, otherwise 
than to ask, have they been here and gone ; for 
they are as dew that tarrieth not for man. 

I know of no way to study the location of the 
ten tribes, in the nineteenth century of the Chris- 
tian era, except by her character "driven out and 
afflicted." By the prophet Micah, the Lord says, 
I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, 
that is, in tribulation, as the flock in the midst of 
their fold, they shall make great noise by reason of 
the multitude of men. By the prophet Isaiah we 
learn that they are given up for a prey, and none 
delivereth, for a spoil, and none saith restore. But 



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is Ephraim an outcast forever ? God forbid. Hear 
the word of the Lord by Jeremiah : 

" Is Ephraim my dear son ? Is he a pleasant 
child : for since I spake against him I do earnestly 
remember him still. I will surely have mercy on 
him saith the Lord. 

"Hear the word of the Lord, ye nations, and 
declare it in the isles afar off, (perhaps Manhattan 
is not left out,) and say, He that scattered Israel 
will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd doth 
his flock. 

"I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first- 
born." So then, this is very noble. 1. Ephraim 
is the younger born of the Governor of Egypt, who 
rides in Pharaoh's chariot, and wears the royal 
ring, and a chain of gold. 

2. Ephraim is adopted by God's Prince for his 
firstborn : and 3. The Lord, who is the Prince of 
Kings, and over all God blessed forever, declares 
Himself to be the Father unto Israel, and sanctifies 
the birthright blessing of Ephraim unto Himself. 

Such an election be lost — be void? Never! 

The covenant is sure to Israel, as to Judah ; and 
Israel shall never cease from being a nation before 
God. The ten are the nation, and Judah is a house. 
But, the Almighty God said to Jacob, 

"a company of nations shall be of thee." 
My fellow mortal, whose eyes may have looked 
on the "Star in the West," a Book published in 



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former years by the venerable Boudinot, how many 
tribes of Red men, are called over on his pages of 
enumeration, say, four thousand! Now it is well 
known that in speaking of the Indians, we use the 
term nation, as the Cherokee Nation, 
Choctaw Nation, 
Kickapoo Nation, 
Creek Nation, &c, &c. 
And the Aborigines of America are named collec- 
tively, "The Red men." 

It may be said that this introduction of the 
" prey that none delivereth," after my repeated in- 
quiries "Where are the ten tribes of Israel," is 
premature and abrupt ; and I cannot deny it, 
neither can I apologize and reverse my testimony ; 
but this I will freely say, by me it was not studied 
so to do. The subject is too sacredly enwrapt in 
the secrecy of God, for poor mortals to approach 
without dread of blame for intrusion ; and, in the 
performance of my present duty, which is, to de- 
fend the literality of original prophecy, believing 
that the New Testament must stand by it, I have 
felt much more diffidence than zeal, upon the sub- 
ject just introduced, because I know it is not pos- 
sible for me to represent any thing beyond pre- 
sumptive evidence that the afflicted Aborigines of 
America, are lineal descendants of Jacob ; and 
especially of Joseph the beloved of Israel and 
Rachel (the weary sheep.) As the disputed theme 



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is opened, I beg the question may have room suf- 
ficient for its size : — Is there a match for oppres- 
sion, wrongs, and sufferings of the Jews since their 
dispersion by Cesar's Victory, except it be sup- 
plied by Indian sorrows ? Search all the Annals of 
Greece, Africa, Poland, France, and the Emerald 
Isle ; and say, can either individually compare 
with the centuries of misery entailed upon Zion's 
children ? But turn a determined attention to the 
pages of "the New World," and which is un- 
marked by the Red brother's wo, from the six- 
teenth century to 1838? and own, that the com- 
parison is worthy of note, "Wheresoever the carcass 
is, thither the Eagles gather together." 

An Eagle grasps the Arrows of Israel. 

An Eagle grasps the emblem of Judah ; and the 
children tremble from the West. 

What is the report from the North ?* 

Will God accept of plea from mortal man, that 
cruelty is necessary ? Where is a nation's honour, 
when government treads down justice in the mire ? 
Is it marked on the Flag in form of a Constellation? 

! Ye poor Red men ! your griefs have an echo 
from the empire of the North ; and the G od of 
heaven is neither deaf nor blind. Shortly will the 
Judge descend that "shall save the children of the 
needy, and break in pieces the oppressors." He 

* Russia. 



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will shake the heavens and the earth ; and over- 
throw the throne of kingdoms ; but He will spare 
the poor and needy. He shall redeem their soul 
from deceit and violence, and precious shall their 
blood be in His sight. They that dwell in the 
wilderness shall bow before him ; and His enemies 
shall lick the dust. " He will say to the North 
give up," and the North must do it ; and though 
like Pharaoh he may pursue, with an evil thought 
of spoil, yet the Lord will disappoint, and drive 
him into a land barren and desolate. 

In the times of restitution, poor red men, you 
will be delivered out of all your distresses, and you 
must wait all the Lord's appointed time till your 
change come. Take heed that no man deceive 
you, saying Lo ! here is Christ or there — " believe 
them not." — Now remember this, ye banished, re- 
member this ; for it is truth. The coming of C hrist, 
as He descends, is proclaimed like lightning, and 
every eye shall see Him, all bewail at once. It is 
precedent to His coming, the Lo! here, and Lo! 
there, sounds in false testimony. And the basest, 
the most criminal are those that seek to beguile you, 
ye "tribes of a secret but heaven whispered story;" 
believe none of them, neither one, or another, or 
any. Look up to the Great Spirit. A father unto 
the fatherless is God in His holy habitation. Let 
your cry ascend from the wilderness, like a beam 
of light parted from the Day Star, yea, more rapid 



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shall it fly from your lorn hearts, into the bosom of 
Redeeming Love ; and there only is the Sympathy 
of depth, to reach your case ; for none but the As- 
cended Saviour of Israel can bear it, because He 
only can heal the stroke of your wound, which is 
sin. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you 
shall be saved. 

>p *t* *£ yfc '*F 7f» 7F tJt 

As I have proposed presumptive evidence that 
the Aborigines of America are lineal descendants 
of Jacob, and confessed that I cannot represent to 
the world any more, I need not be accused of 
fanaticism on this point, until my testimony to that 
evidence is at end, and when I say this is all I can 
produce, if my testimony amounts not to presump- 
tive evidence, then judge me worthy of death. 
Remember I look for the ten lost tribes of the chil- 
dren of Israel, in the wilderness, come up out of 
Egypt ; and I look for them also, in the promised 
Land, settled in their inheritance, and happy for- 
ever. Such a people must have peculiar marks 
upon them, which time cannot wear out, any more 
than it can destroy their election. The marks are 
for the way ; and must be recorded, so, if I exam- 
ine the congregation in the wilderness, I must go 
along with them, cross the Jordan, enter Jericho, 
go up to Jerusalem; and when they exclaim 
"every man to your tents Israel," watch their 
breach of the Kingly Covenant, and next behold 



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the ten curtains stripped off, and away from the 
tabernacle of David ; and alas ! they are spread 
over an idol altar.* In the land of Israel I hear 
the voice of the Word of the Lord by prophets 
and seers. I behold Elijah a representative of the 
Law ; and Elisha after him, a type of the evangeli- 
cal Order of Grace. But Israel is spiritually lost. 
They are driven away from following the Lord 
by their first Shepherd, and in every successive 
reign they walk in all his sins, which he did ; and 
departed not from them. Idolatry was the estab- 
lished worship in their kingdom. " They sold 
themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to 
provoke him to anger, so that the Lord rejected 
Israel, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, 
until he had cast them out of His sight. Out of 
His sight?" How can this be ? It means out of 
the presence of His grace ; for He sent them away 
into a heathen land, to nations that He did not 
profess to know, (savingly) for He made no agree- 
ment with them. God never made a covenant 
with any people under the sun, except the children 
of Israel, and their fathers. Promises of Salvation 
by grace, are all made to them, and by their break- 
ing off, the blessing of faithful Abraham comes on 
the Gentiles, while Israel is considered dead. 
Now I ask, how can I see Israel if she is cast 



• 1 Kings xii. 33. 2 Kings xvii. 10, 11. Hosea viii. 11, 



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out of God's sight? I cannot see her nominally ; 
for she is not known in the world. I must search 
for her location on the Map of holy prophecy ; and 
catch a glance of her in the Law. The Jews, who 
are visible, must be my way marks; for in the 
covenant of Sinai they are one people, as in the 
covenant of grace ; and promises of earthly bless- 
ings, made rich by the blessing of the Lord ; (to 
which no sorrow is added) and threatenings of 
curses, that by judgment of God, is sorrow upon 
sorrow, are administered by one Law, to them all. 
It is true that one consideration is for the Jews 
only; and this I must regard. The Jews have 
been kept in visibility by the literality of their rejec- 
tion of Christ, who came to them in lowliness, and 
exacted no tribute, except obedience to their Hea- 
venly Father. But the visibility of Judah and 
Benjamin is limited; and so is Levi, (with Judah's 
companions,) from other tribes. The Jews at this 
day hardly profess to know their genealogy in par- 
ticular, except by one name, Cohen, they recognise 
the priesthood. I have asked many Jews the ques- 
tion, " of what tribe are you ?" Some have re- 
plied "I do not know" — others have said "that 
knowledge is lost." We reckon three. Cohen — 
Levi — Israel : and one replied of " Naphtali." 

The Jews having Levi with them are united to 
the law. Israel losing Levi, is divorced from the 
Law ; and though she was allowed her birthright 



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Name in Samaria, it is not an equivalent for the 
priesthood, for Christ had not come in the flesh, 
who must be made under the law. Israel could 
not be independent of the Law, even as Israel, and 
hold her tenantship in the holy land, for it is the 
Lord's ; and therefore the name was nominal, and 
the blessing was reserved for Israel in ages to 
come. The Jews therefore supersede Israel in 
some respect of visibility, while God walks con- 
trary to them, as He threatened by Moses, and the 
threatening in Leviticus is addressed to them all, 
i. e. nationally, and respectively, even to Israel. 

Are the Jews a bye word, a taunt, and a re- 
proach unto this day ? 

Are the Indians a bye word, a taunt, and a re- 
proach? Go to the South — and go to the far West, 
and see. It is so indeed, to the disgrace of Chris- 
tianity. The Indians by their oppressors are 
deemed the insects of an hour." 

"Forgotten, or despised amid 
The regions of their power." 
Are the Jews a separate people ? In many re- 
spects; and indeed to the bound of their ability. 
See Lev. xx. 24. " I am the Lord your God, 
which have separated you from other people." 
See v. 26. " And ye shall be holy unto me : for I, 
the Lord, am holy; and have severed you from 
other people that ye should be mine." 

Do the Jews glory in their election? Are they 
proud of it ? 



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Ask an Indian the Great Spirit's estimation of 
the pale faces. "A white nothing," is put for the 
irreligious ; and the whole race " accursed people." 
The Indians in Adair's time represented their de- 
scent from Jacob calling him a great man that the 
Great Ruach* loved : they say he had twelve sons. 
The Indians suppose that their descent from the 
great man is by the Ruach, and that they are His 
beloved people, to the exclusion of all others, ex- 
cept two parts of their own kind. They say, "we 
used to be twelve. We are now but ten." 

As to separation, the Indians consider it a law 
of the Great Spirit; and while their hospitality is 
far beyond the white people, they seem to use it 
as a natural and common thing, always ready to 
serve the stranger that calls at the door of their 
wigwam as though he was a brother or dear 
friend; but they never mingle national affairs. 
The white man is on one side. The red men on 
the other. 

Are the Jews expecting better Days? 

Certainly the Creek Indians at their corn dance 
sing a Jubilee song, and close with Hal le lu jah. 

The Jews, among other original marks of their 
divine election, retain a solemn reverence of the 
ineffable Name of the Deity; and never speak it, 
but count or name the Letters. 

* Spirit. The Indians to this day use some Hebrew words. 



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The Indians are in possession of the Ineffable 
Name. See the Address of the Honourable M. 
M. Noah, before the Mechanic Association in N. Y. 

It is remarkable that among all the nations cal- 
led Christian, a very small minority confess to the 
restoration of the Jews, and the personal reign of 
their Messiah ; and yet once in a while there is 
some stir about them, and pretences are made for 
their deliverance. Napoleon offered his services 
to the Jews at West Phalia. The Jews did not 
accept him. 

It is a popular sentiment among sixteen millions 
of " mingled people," that " the Indians are melt- 
ing away, and in a few years will be extinct." 
But — behold, Joe Smith, a native born son of the 
great state of New York, announces that God has 
revealed to him the glory that shall come on the 
Red man, when he (Joe Smith) has built the 
temple of God in the far West. 

The Jews (generally) that I have spoken to on 
the subject, do not favour my opinion of Indian 
Origin. One told me that Indians are Esau. If 
the Indians are Esau, I ask how comes their faces 
to be so smooth. " Esau was a hairy man, the In- 
dians are quite the reverse." 

Some persons say that the Indians are wandering 
Tartars, i. e. descendants of Ishmael. Ah ! this is 
a reproach, because the Indians are wanderers. 
But I will ask this question. Had Ishmael's great 



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father (Abraham) twelve sons? Again. Could 
the descendants of Ishmael hold a tradition from 
age to age, that they were the beloved of the 
Great Spirit ? Is there a prophecy in the scrip- 
tures, that Ishmael shall "wander from sea to 
sea ;" and dwell alone ? Is there a prophecy in 
scripture, that Ishmael shall become a spoil and 
a prey, a proverb, a taunt, a bye word, and a 
reproach ? 

Where in the scriptures is it written " Wo to 
the drunkards," of Ishmael ? But look at Isaiah 
xxviii. 1, 3; and then see in verse fifth, that a 
remnant shall be saved. We all know that ever 
since the landing of the Dutch on Manhattan Isl- 
and, the great sin, of red men has been, their using 
fire water to excess; and by their own account, it 
was an old, or former habit renewed. Ah ! if the 
gallows rope is righteous recompense for wilful 
murder, it is in request for traders among the poor 
outcasts — the Indians. — But God will judge them. 
" I will recompense saith the Lord." 

" God will bring every work into judgment." 

* * * * * * 

The Indians who have associated very little 
with the white man, may appear to represent Ish- 
maePs decreed character, " a wild man ;" but this 
cannot prove them descendants of the Egyptian 
woman, any more than that the son of an English 
man has Persian blood, because he is born in Persia, 



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and perhaps inclines to their manners. Noah was 
not a descendant of Cain, although Noah had a body 
subject to death, as well as Cain. It was Noah's 
privilege to be perfectly distinct from Satan's 
possession (Cain). He was not chosen as a just 
man, without reference to his genealogy; and the 
expressions "and Noah walked with God/' being 
the same as Enoch, after Enoch had a family, I 
look at Noah's walk with God to be the means of 
sealing perfection on his generations, so, that either 
of his sons might be candidates for the personal 
LoRDship. After Ham lost his blessing, two sons 
remained equal ; but see, Ham's sin elicited pro- 
phecy, and Shem* is preferred to Japheth. From 
Shem to the holy child Jesus, as from Adam and 
Seth to Noah, the distinction is minutely observed, 
and it never can pass away from the purpose of 
God, until all be fulfilled. 

The partiality for hunting is a marked charac- 
teristic of the Indian in his native state. It is 
written of Esau that he was a cunning hunter ; and 
that Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents. 
This is no stumbling block in the way of my tes- 
timony, any more than the fierce wildness of the 
Pawnee nation, and the Commanches, Crow, and 
Kansas Indians on the flowery Prairies of the far 
West; for I look after Ephraim (ten tribes) in 

* Renown, or Name. But Con. 



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estate of the outcast, of course the decree " let him 
alone/ 5 is expressive of entire change of character, 
as the ground, if uncultivated brings forth wild 
gourds instead of wheat, or barley, or beans. 

In respect of the wild character of native Indians, 
I think it altogether favourable, on the score of 
presumptive evidence that the Aborigines of Ame- 
rica are lineal descendants of Joseph, and of Jacob 
Israel. I ask this question. Has it ever appeared 
possible for the white people to enslave the Indian 
tribes? You must say no. You cannot help it. 
Now I fly to the Lord's testimony out of the 
whirlwind, 

"Who hath sent out the wild ass free?" 
Now you may ask, if I compare Israel to a wild 
ass? If I do, I only change strong for wild, with 
the dying patriarch's blessing on Issachar; and the 
prophet Jeremiah* calls Israel a wild ass, and also 
a swift dromedary traversing her ways; and Jere- 
miah wrote from the mouth of the Lord. 

Is it not very striking, that after the inquiry 
"Is Israel a servant? Is he a home born slave?" 
that the Word of the Lord declares him, a wild 
ass that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure ; and 
these words also, "used to the wilderness?" 

Hosea, one of Israel's special prophets, calls 
Israel a wild ass, in the judgment of captivity, and 
Hosea says " alone by himself." 

* See chap. ii. 24. 



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Bat to the word of the Lord out of the whirl- 
wind, 

" Who hath sent out the wild ass free ? 
Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass ? 
Whose house I have made the wilderness, 
And the barren land his dwellings. 
He scorneth the multitude of the city, 
Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver." 

Now I look upon this address of the Lord to Job, 
as a prophecy declared as many prophecies are, as 
though past. I see it in that light, and so hand it 
out : even that Israel's bands in Assyria are loosed 
by Israel's Covenant God, and she is sent out free; 
and furthermore I do believe, that such as the 
Pawnees will take no notice of Anti-Christ. 

" Will the Unicorn (a wild Ox) be willing to serve thee ? 

Or ABIDE BY THY CRIB ? 

Canst thou bind the Unicorn with his band in thy furrows ? Or 

will he harrow the valleys after thee ? 
Wilt thou trust him because his strength is great ? 
Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? 
Wilt thou believe him that he will bring home thy seed ? 
And gather it into thy barn ?" 

Permit me to add a foolish question of my own. 
Wilt thou trust him to bring thee gold dust out of 
his land? or didst thou even trust his word that he 
will desert his inheritance for thee, in two years, 
from 1838?" 

When Balaam stood on the top of Pisgah (a 

* President Van Buren. 



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high mountain of Moab that overlooks the pro- 
mised land), he declared to Balak the irreversibility 
of God's purpose to bless Israel; and Balaam said 
"God brought them out of Egypt: He hath as it 
were the strength of a Unicorn!" 

Afterward Balaam "set his face toward the 
wilderness/' and repeats the testimony "God 
brought," &c., varying one word, "him" for 
"them;" and then after Unicorn adds, "He shall 
eat up the nations His enemies, and shall break 
their bones, and pierce them through with his 
arrows." 

Moses the man of God, in concluding his blessing 
of Joseph, declares " his Glory is like the firstling of 
His bullock, and his horns are like the horns of 
Unicorns: with them he shall push the people 
together to the ends of the earth, and they are the 
ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thou- 
sands of Manasseh." 

In the one hundred and fourth Psalm it is 
written, " The high hills are a refuge for the wild 
goats; and the rocks for the conies." 

The Lord inquires of Job if he can tell the time 
when the wild goats bring forth ? Alas ! in Jeru- 
salem's troubles she knows nothing about the flock 
on Mount Gilead; and her dispersed children who 
are now among the Eagles see none of Rachel's 
beautiful hair, upon, or this side the Rocky Moun- 
tains? 



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The colour, or the complexion of the Aborigines 
has been objected to the question before us. 

In the ninth chapter of Amos, and seventh verse, 
the Lord threatens the children of Israel that they 
shall become unto Him as children of Cush. Not 
black. Not Cush. But as children, i. e. neither 
black nor white. 

I feel very indifferent on this particular; for I 
have seen Osage warriors whose faces were fairer 
than Italian ladies (paint or whitewash excepted) 
and I once had a dear brother, who chose to go to 
sea 5 and on his return from a voyage to a hot 
climate, he was so changed, from fair to brown, 
that at first glance I could scarce recognise my 
brother. 

" Different languages are spoken among Indians 
of different tribes." So it is said; and for aught I 
know may be the case. 

The Indians say, that their fathers used to have 
the old beloved Speech of the Great Spirit; and 
that they had the Great Spirit's Book also. 

In Adair's time, (who lived with the Indians 
forty years), the Red men used the Hebrew; as 
Adair affirms. After the return of Judah's cap- 
tivity in Babylon, Nehemiah saw Jews in Jeru- 
salem that had married wives of Ashdod, Ammon, 
and Moab ; and their children could not speak the 
Jew's language, but according to the speech of 
each people, i. e. half Ashdod. The Indian women 



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have married white Englishmen, and yellow 
Frenchmen, beside those that we call " people of 
colour," meaning children of Africa. 

But I believe that the Indians to this day have 
some precious relics of the pure Hebrew language, 
for instance Hallelujah, and Yohewah; but the 
diversity of speech in general, I look upon as one 
of the marks upon Israel that she is desolate in the 
day of rebuke ; and I know something by expe- 
rience; for during my sojourn in the holy city, 
from April, 1840, to May, 1841, 1 heard seven dif- 
ferent languages that did not edify me, because 
they were not English. 

The marriages, burials, and birth rites of the 
Indians, are very much like the ancient pattern. 
Also their preparations for going to war, and the 
manner of their warfare. I was never more affected 
with any scene than an Osage War dance ; and an 
Agent, or an Officer, interpreted their Song to me, 
which amounted to proclaiming their success in 
battle, without waiting for a compliment from the 
daughters of Israel. The Osages called me Wah- 
conda's* Wakko, because I told them the Great 
Spirit loved the Red men, and desired them to be 
good. A Chief buried his little daughter during 
their encampment at Fort Gibson, and after many 
ceremonies were performed, the father sat down 

* God's Woman. 



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upon her grave, and there he sat four days, bewail- 
ing her death, until his voice was almost gone.* 

I believe it will be no new thing, if I say, that 
the Indians, in their native state are a religious 
people. I certainly know that their communica- 
tions with white traders have greatly injured them; 
and it is very lamentable, that such intercourse is 
continued in these days of falling away from the 
truth as it is in Jesus. But one thing is certain: if 
the Indians are lineal descendants of Jacob, they 
belong to that vinyard of red wine, over which 
the Lord commands a perpetual watch care; for 
Israel's Shepherd doth neither slumber nor sleep ; 

" And sooner may fail, sun, moon, and world, 
Than Israel be to oblivion hurled." 
I shall next notice the eighteenth chapter of the 
Book of the visions of Isaiah. I say I shall notice 
it. This careless expression may not be recalled : 
it is a specimen of un watchfulness. The real truth 
is, the chapter suddenly came before me, as I wrote 
the two lines from Mrs. Sigourney's Address to the 
people of the United States; and it seemed to claim 
a Hebrew Scholar, even one brought up at the feet 
of Gamaliel, to bring David's harp, and give the 
right sound. The other requisite is, an obedient 

* This young- chief called to see me after those days, and he 
spoke in a whisper. 

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ear; but, again I stand corrected. If Paul was 
present, with Judah's Lyre, he could not give the 
certain sound, except the hand of the Lord (i. e. 
the Spirit) removed the seal from the sacred Instru- 
ment, and inspired his tongue with life giving rea- 
son, righteous and true. Why may I not at once 
implore the Presence of that Holy Spirit whose 
ministration is to faith in the times of my Lord's 
absence from His own throne? May I not suppli- 
cate his Presence in my soul, as of cloven tongue 
of fire, that glorifies the Name of the Lord of 
hosts? 

I will, I do ; and rejoice that the Key of prophecy 
is left in the cabinet of faith, and the Spirit of truth 
commands me " Seek ye out of the Book of the 
Lord, and read : none of these shall fail, and not a 
prophecy, lacks its mate." I have only to believe, 
and I shall see ; for Jesus said " according to your 
faith be it unto you." How mistaken am I, when 
I think of faith as of a great, high mountain, that I 
cannot ascend. Instead of that, faith is a little child's 
hand, that can by a touch overturn the great moun- 
tain, and root out the strong sycamine. Nothing 
is now so scarce as faith, no not even money 
among money's worshippers. 

The eighteenth chapter of Isaiah, is not prefaced 
with " The burden," although it is evidently a 
prophecy that bears weightily upon some particular 
section of this created earth, that is beyond the 



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rivers of Ethiopia. The cry to, or concerning it, 
seems not to involve its affairs at home, but some 
other nation, or people, afar off, that are either 
molested by their interference, or, otherwise must 
be assisted by them. This chapter has received 
new translations in late years; and I have 
seen them, and have read criticisms upon these 
new translations. I have also made inquiries about 
the chapter of original proprietors of the sacred 
language ; and after all, my attention rests on the 
English reformation Bible. Of one thing I am cer- 
tain, that the land addressed, is in possession of 
power, at the set time for fulfilment, and the mis- 
sions of their ambassadors are directed to a people, 
or a nation that is entirely miserable. The latter 
are described in such a way, that I cannot but view 
them perishing, rather than ready to perish ; and 
their deliverance looks to me like the resuscitation 
of a drowned man. 

I think it of the greatest consequence to under- 
stand this prophecy literally : i. e. land, ambassa- 
dors, vessels, and a people scattered and peeled. 

Also, to bring the literal out of the figures, viz. 
rivers, ensign, trumpet, sour grape, fowls, and 
beasts. Here I will cite the 12 — 14 verses of the 
preceding chapter, as a show of cause for the judg- 
ments represented as the piercing and cutting off 
by a sword that has universal victory. 

" Woe to the multitude of many people, 



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" Which make a noise like the noise of the seas : 
and to the rushing of the nations (woe) 

That make a rushing like the rushing 

Of mighty waters ! (Woe !) 

ffj^P 5 * The nations shall rush like the rushing of 
many waters :" 

" But G od shall rebuke them ; and they shall flee 
far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the moun- 
tains before the wind, and like a rolling thing, 
(the wheel of a Steam Ship) before the whirlwind." 

" And behold at evening time trouble. 

" And before the morning, He is not. 

This is the portion of them that spoil us ; and 

The lot of them that rob us." 

Then follows, " Woe to the land," &c. I ask here 
one of my foolish questions : " Is woe in chap. xvii. 
v. 12 obsolete ? and are the three last trumpets, Ho 
trumpets, or trumpets of woe ?" 

I must add two more questions. 

" In the awful apostacy of the last time, when 
priest and prophet are swallowed up of wine, so 
that they err in vision, and stumble in judgment ; 
and all tables (altars) are full of vomit and fil- 
thiness, so that there is no place clean," will God 
speak to the people that are ready to perish in the 
Hebrew tongue? See c. xxviii. 11 ? Will you? Is 
Italian, or Latin stammering ? or our English, in 
which dough is pronounced doe, and tough is pro- 
nounced tuff? 



1S9 

A very learned Jew in Ohio, told me in 1834, 
that "Woe to the land/' is preceded by Ho, Ho. 
I do not dispute his assertion ; but I hold this ; 
HHP* that when the time was come to cut short 
the ecclesiastic power of Rome, the Lord began by 
taking two men away from her altars ; and after a 
century had elapsed, the Lord was pleased to in- 
cline the heart of a king, whose crown was 
mounted by Judah's Lion, to devise means, to pre- 
sent the Holy Scriptures in the language foretold* 
and the king appointedt fifty-four persons to engage 
in this great work ; and forty-seven of them lived 
to accomplish it. At this moment, 1 have two 
copies of this translation on the table : one Oxford 
without references : the other Philadelphia with 
references. I have a concordance, and beside, no 
other book. A good English sword is well enough 
for me ; for in every respect of this age, my am- 
bition either falls below, or soars above it. This I 
will explain. I glory now, only in the cross of 
Christ, and pray to wash His feet with my tears. 
Humiliation was my Saviour's passport to Glory, as 
from Glory to humiliation, and through it, it 
was love; and many waters cannot quench, nor 
floods drown it. ! Father, give me the grace to 



* Isaiah xxviii. 11. 

t 47 convened in A. D. (Solar) 1607 ; and their translation was 
first published in 1610, 



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love much, much, much ! ! ! for, in Jesus' Name, 
(Adorable above every Name,) I ask it. Amen. 

The land shadowing with wings, is addressed 
(in English,) with a Woe ! What is the cause. An- 
swer, she sends her ambassadors in steamboats 
upon the waters : She (her government,) orders, 
"go ye, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a 
people terrible from their beginning hitherto : a 
nation meted out, and trodden down whose land, 
the rivers have spoiled." 

What land is this, without a name ? The Word 
of the Lord to Isaiah in visions, declares 

" Woe to the crown of pride," and adapts the 
woe to Ephraim. 

Also, Woe to Ariel ; and adds " the city where 
David dwelt." 

And wo to the rebellious children that reject the 
Holy Ghost, meaning the scribes aed Pharisees : 

And " Wo to thee that spoilest," meaning the 
throne of kingdoms or Gentiles. 

Now, in the eighteenth chapter of Isaiah, a land 
is addressed, that shadoweth with wings, and there 
is no farther direction for us, except that it is be- 
yond the rivers of Cush, and her manner is, to send 
her ambassadors upon the waters, in vessels of 
bulrushes. 

Are the wings significant of her character, that 
she covers the oppressed from the storm, and shel- 
ters the outcast and helpless from oppression ? 



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Or do they represent her government soaring 
above others in huzza for liberty, with "Inde- 
pendence" for her boast, and "eternal vigilance," 
its security, for her motto ! 

I do not profess ability to decide ; but I hazard 
one profound Yankee guess ; and it is plain thus 
and so : viz. if the geographical location of the land 
was shown to the prophet Isaiah, I guess he had a 
view of the wilderness, that God made a house for 
the wild Ass whom He sent out free. If this is the 
case, there may be a re-action, or coming over 
from very violent, and voluntary wrongs, unto a 
work of restitution, by command of indisputable 
sovereignty, that shall bring honour to the Name of 
the Lord of Hosts, and rest for the meted out, 
peeled, and trodden down nation. 

In many prophecies, there are two sides of the 
burden : for instance, Nebuchadnezzar King of 
Babylon, at the commencement of Gentile do- 
minion over the heritage of God, is called the 
Lord's servant. After seventy years, the Lord 
reverses His decree, and the King, and land of the 
Chaldees are brought to desolation. It was all 
foretold by Jeremiah. 

So it is, in the history of Israel in Egypt. Joseph 
was promoted to great honour during a time of 
need in Egypt, and after, to the end of his mortal 
days. After his death, another King arose that 
knew not Joseph, and his nation were afflicted and 
oppressed with hard bondage in Egypt. 



192 

It is not impossible but the vision of Isaiah con- 
cerning the people scattered and peeled, meted out, 
and trodden down, a people terrible from their be- 
ginning hitherto, may exhibit two distinct charac- 
ters of embassy, the first to reduce the people to 
utter wretchedness, the other to deliver them from 
it. This, however, remains to be proved by the 
final result; and will in the Lord's good time. 

There is but one personality that I claim for my 
portion of the argument; and this is, the Indians 
may well answer to the account in Isaiah's pro- 
phecy. Scattered about over a vast territory of 
land that (but for their presence) is a solitary place, 
even there they are meted out by Commissioners 
sent in rushing vessels upon the waters, they are 
peeled by white traders, and trodden down by 
Agents, &c. 1 ask, if there is any other people 
known under the sun, who bear all the marks of 
desolation portrayed in prophecy that stands this 
side the last great trouble of Jacob ; and is it not 
the beginning of sorrows? 

I can tell of two things (to me they appear mon- 
strous,) that took place, while I sojourned in the 
far west. A certain part of the Shawnee nation 
had received their annuity money ($ 2000) and in 
less than a week were penniless. How is this? I 
say "peeled." 

Another affair I shall mention, as a vivid illus- 
tration of " meted out, and trodden down." Eleven 



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years of pilgrim life in difFerent countries, with 
much sickness, and continued sorrows, have not 
effaced this matter from painful remembrance. The 
Kickapoo nation, with their companions the Potta- 
watamies, had been desired by the U. S. govern- 
ment to remove from Osage River to settle upon 
land about six miles N. W. of Fort Leavenworth,* 
which is on the Missouri River, and fifty miles west 
of Independence. These inoffensive Indians went 
out, looked at the place, and were dissatisfied: they 
desired to return to their lands on Osage River. 
Two bands were determined to do it. The other 
(styled the prophet's band) consented to meet the 
proposition or the will of the U. S. government. 
This band were religious, very much so; and were 
obedient to the prophet, who seemed to cherish the 
spirit of non-resistance to evil. The others blamed 
the prophet, and threatened his life, if he finished a 
treaty on Missouri ground. t The prophet was the 
principal chief. As an official Letter had been 
addressed to the Agent of that nation, by the late 
lamented and venerable Sup. Ind. Affairs, General 
Clark, on my behalf, the Agent called on me, and 
asked if I had any commands. 1 requested an 
interview with the Kickapoo prophet, attended by 
the U. S. interpreter. I shall relate some of the 

* Fort Leavenworth is near the banks of Missouri River. 
t I saw the prophet but once, at Leavenworth, August 1833. 
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experience of that remarkable character, as it came 
to my ears by the interpreter, who spoke sentence 
by sentence, from the prophet's own mouth. 

" Ten years ago, a voice spoke to me, saying, 
my son repent." This was the beginning; and he 
then stated that he did not reform ; but continued 
to drink, and was very bad. He heard the voice 
again and again, saying, "my son repent" At 
last, one night he lay on the ground (his bottle was 
by his side) the voice called, "my son repent — this 
is the last call." He obeyed that call; and he said 
to me, " the voice has told me how to teach my 
people; and the voice of my heavenly Father said 
that the Son of God had come once into this world; 
and that He would come again, and that His com- 
ing again, was for to take care of His red children." 

The prophet was a sorrowful man. He appeared 
to me like a bruised reed, and like one that did eat 
the bread of mourners. He told me that his tribe 
bitterly reproached him, and they threatened to kill 
him on account of his willingness to accept the lands 
in that region. He said, " I have a great deal of 
trouble." He said to me, " we thank you (he had 
some chiefs with him) for your kindness. I am 
sure the Great Spirit must have sent you, or you 
must have died in the way." 

A gentleman that I met in my return journey 
told me, that he heard the Kickapoo prophet preach 
at the Shawnee Agency, aided by interpreters; and 



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(said the gentleman) my blood almost chilled in my 
veins, when he said, "the Great Spirit's Book, 
now in possession of the white man, once belonged 
to the red men, that is, said he, the first parts. It 
will be ours again," said he. 

! ye poor, tried, afflicted, and meted out people, 
the Lord knows your blood. The Lord (and 
Blessed be He,) will decide in judgment between 
Blood and bloods, between plea and plea, and be- 
tween stroke and stroke, that are matters of con- 
troversy in this lower world; and this truth is the 
comfort of your friend, and advocate, the pilgrim 
stranger. 

! Glorious Day ! matchless Jubilee, all hail ! 
It will appear. It cannot tarry long. The Lord 
will take His Rest; and in that time He will com- 
mand that the people scattered, peeled, meted out 
and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have 
spoiled, shall be brought to the place of the Name 
of the Lord of hosts, which is Mount Zion. Whe- 
ther question of Indian descent shall be resolved for 
us, while we are on probation, I know not, neither 
do I pray for it. I have represented on these pages, 
what I think is presumptive evidence in their fa- 
vour ; and I have done it with prayer to my Hea- 
venly Father, that He would preserve me in the 
truth, for the Name sake of Israel's holy One, the 
Saviour of lost and perishing sinners, of whom 
(apart from the holy Lamb) I am chief; but in 
Him I am saved. 



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I am certain of one thing, even that the Indians 
have been treated by these nations (U. S.) as though 
they were literally wild beasts, rather than Ishmael, 
a wild man, or Esau, a cunning hunter; and as by 
the imputation of either kind of descent, it seems 
they are owned by the by, to be fellow beings, 
which involves a hard case, because of the judg- 
ment Day, I think it is high time for Congress to sit 
in sackcloth and ashes, and imitate Nineveh of old 
time, while the Dove (the Holy Spirit) lingers about 
in Gentile lands, to convince men of sin, of right- 
eousness and judgment to come. 

When the word of the Lord was proclaimed in 
Nineveh by Jonah (whose name signifies the Dove,) 
the prophet of Galilee (Revolution of the wheel,) 
saying, "yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be 
overthrown," (it is written) "the people of Nine- 
veh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put 
on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the 
least of them." For, the word came to the king of 
Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid 
his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, 
and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be pro- 
claimed and published through Nineveh, by decree 
of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man 
nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them 
not feed nor drink water: But, let man and beast* 

* This is wrested from the skeptic's claws, and jaws, by other 
portions of holy Writ. See Joel 1. 18 & 20, Job 6, 5, Psalm 148, 



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be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto 
God; yea, let every one turn from his evil way, 
and from the violence that is in their hands. Who 
can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away 
from His fierce anger that we perish not." 

It is written that "God spared Nineveh" when 
He saw their works. 

But when Nineveh revolted, and blasphemed 
the Name, and against the temple of the Lord, 
Nineveh was laid waste. 

Nineveh is a type of the calling, and of the re- 
jection of the Gentiles. Jonah's life was redeemed 
from corruption, while he lay in the deeps ; and 
he afterward preached to Nineveh, the preaching 
that God bid him ; but when he grieved at the 
failure of literality on the fulfilment of his message, 
the Lord (the Word) asserted his prerogative to 
show mercy, even by an overturn of wickedness in 
granting repentance, instead of hardening the heart, 
as in the case of Pharaoh, Israel's first national 
Gentile foe. 

But — here I think, some will say, that the 
United States Government is not a subject of this 
reproach, "Israel's enemy!" No indeed! On 
these " sacred shores" (I do not deride this — be- 
cause of them poor sheep that were here before 
Columbus,) the dispersed of Judah, have found a 

10. Query. Did the Angel relieve Balaam's Ass? Blush Infidel, 
for the cattle are wiser than thou art, thou silly animal ! 

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home. Have they ? Shame on them ! Is the harp 
in their hand, while Zion is a captive ? Weeping 
willows are plenty in Pennsylvania, whose beauti- 
ful city is built on the plan of ancient Babylon. Is 
Judah's heart so gone, that she will forswear 
Zion? Is Land beyond the rivers of Cush "the 
promised Land?" Has the God of Israel trans- 
ferred His Name from Jerusalem to Washington? 
I read not Jew upon any man, that has praise to 
spare (not to say lavish) from the meed that is due 
to the place of Jehovah's feet, and the place of His 
throne. ! children of Zion, how is it that ye un- 
derstand not the Sign, An Eagle grasps the Olive 
Branch in one talon, and the arrows in the other. 
The dove came to Noah with the Olive leaf in her 
mouth ! 

Vfc 7fC "SfC 7j7 7jC 7J? 

Mr. Speaker, (is it any harm for me to assume 
the presence of a Delegate, just for a minute — pre- 
sence only pro tern.?) Mr. Speaker, if there is a 
Jew in this house, I desire from him an explana- 
tion of the notable mystery, Indian Arrows, and 
the Olive Branch, in our Bald Eagle's talons ; 
(" Hail Columbia," &c. — Stop that music — my 
question is very important,) for what can a Jew 
have to do here, except to expound this Law, that 
the King of unclean birds, (Lev. xi. 13) and a bird 
of prey, must inherit the insignias of his two houses, 
Israel and Judah ? 



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Ah ! the Bow of Israel was broke in the valley 
of Jezreel ; but the Arrows are brought to the land 
of the sun's going down. The arrows are grasped 
in a talon of the eagle that maketh her nest among 
the stars. Alas ! for the house of Israel, they 
should not have angered their God to jealousy, by 
the Star of Moloch and Chiun ; but they should 
have obeyed the voice of Him that maketh Arc- 
turus to exhibit his sword below the seven stars, 
bindeth Pleiades in time of harvest, and looseth 
Orion after the days of the new year ; the voice of 
Him that formed the mountains, created the wind, 
and declareth unto man what is his thought ;* the 
voice of Him that maketh the morning darkness 
(Ex. x. 22, and Matt, xxvii. 45) and treadeth upon 
the high places of the earth, (John viii. 1. Mark 
ix. 2, 3) the Lord of hosts is His Name. (Rev. i. 8) 
Alas! that the bow of Jonathan must turn back 
also ; and the shield of the mighty (Sign of the 
Covenant) be cast away on Gentile high places ! ! ! 

At this moment I anticipate an objection to my 
stated position, that the ten tribes (who forsook the 
house of David, after Solomon's death, and were 
carried away captive into a heathen land, in the 
days of Hezekiah's reign over Judah,) retain their 
separateness from other nations, although in na- 
tionality invisible by cessation of their history on 

* Matt. ix. 4 ; and xii. 25. John ii. 24, 25 ; and vi. 64. 



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the page of their cloudy day. How is it, that ye 
do not understand the expression " I will break the 
bow of Israel;" and that her ensign goes with it. 
If Israel is cast out of the Lord's sight, can man 
see Israel? Yet Israel was not slain literally; but 
carried off into heathen cities. 

The objector may quote as follows: — " lo ! I will 
command, and I will sift the house of Israel among 
all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall 
not the least grain thereof fall upon the earth." 
In wresting this scripture as prophecy of the de- 
struction of Israel's national bones in the valley of 
the shadow of her political decease, error and 
heresy are plentifully scattered about on Gentile 
ground, and the harvest must be desperate sorrow 
all round ; for such doctrine strips the Gentiles of 
hope, as Israel of dignity, in the latter day. Now 
as a foolish called one, I will, show my opinion. 
The ninth chapter of Amos is a whole prophecy, 
and must be kept whole. It was spoken in the 
days of Joash, the father of Jereboam II. who 
reigned in Samaria forty and one years. The pro- 
phet commences with the destruction of the idol 
altar that was reared in Bethel by Jereboam I.; 
and the vision of Amos revives the prophecy of a 
man of God, uttered by Word from the Lord, 
while the apostate king was offering incense to the 
queen of heaven. But the prophecy was not lite- 
rally fulfilled till after the lapse of about one hun- 



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dred years after Israel was carried away into a 
heathen land. The tenth verse threatens the un- 
believers of prophecy concerning the evil. The 
ninth verse is a special prophecy that is not ful- 
filled to this day. It is a concern of the time, times 
and half time of the personal anti-Christ, and is a 
literal matter. The eighth verse threatens the 
kingdom in possession of the beast ; and Jacob's 
remnant are spared. The eleventh verse comes in 
opposite the sixth and fifth, " the Lord God shall 
touch the land, and it shall melt" — judgment shall 
rise up against Israel wholly as a flood, and Israel 
become bondmen again, but in the midst of wrath, 
mercy is remembered, and " In that day, restora- 
tion commences with the throne ; — healing Zion," 
&c. — and in the fourteenth and fifteenth verses, 
the Lord remembers lost Ephraim. 

" And I will bring again the captivity of my 
people of Israel, and they shall build the waste 
cities, and inhabit them ; and they shall plant vin- 
yards and drink the wine thereof: they shall also 
make gardens and eat the fruit of them. And I 
will plant them upon their land, and they shall no 
more be pulled up out of their land which I have 
given them saith the Lord God." 

So the gathering of a sifted people is to the 
praise of Divine economy, Salvation by Sovereignty 
of Grace " Ye shall be my people, and I will be 
your God;" and I will cleanse their blood that 



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I have not cleansed ; for the Lord dwelleth in 
Zion. 

Does any one say this is not fair dealing ? 
Must I take the ninth verse by itself? Then I 
must divide the verse. 

1. The Lord commands judgment. 

2. The Lord executes judgment — 

3. The Lord remembers mercy. 

The act of sifting the corn (of wheat) in the holy 
land is designed to prepare it for the mill. As a 
figure in prophecy, it intends a separation of the 
precious from the vile, i. e. scattering away the 
strange children, not elect for the Adamic king- 
dom ; and this work precedes the regeneration of 
Israel and Judah in the Great Day of perfect heal- 
ing of Zion's wound, which is deeper than anti- 
Literalists apprehend; for it reaches even to the 
soul, — gasping, dying, and dead in the fall. Zion's 
healer is, the second Man, the Lord from heaven. 
But will you answer this question? When our 
Blessed Saviour said to Peter, " Simon, Simon, 
behold Satan hath desired to have you, (t. e. all Is- 
rael,) that he may sift you as wheat," did not the 
allusion to the restoration (see vs. 29, 30,) inspire 
the Apostle with the zeal of martyrdom ? Could 
Peter, a Jew, not then born of the Spirit (see v. 
32) rejoice in serving the twelve tribes of Israel, in 
the day appointed for his fellowship with His 
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he beheld them as lineal descendants of Jacob who 
was surnamed Israel ? Is not Peter's sermon that 
he delivered on the day of Pentecost, a plain testi- 
mony by the Holy Ghost that Jesus of Nazareth 
will return personally, and sit upon David's throne ? 
And to whom did the apostle address his dis- 
course? "Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell 
at Jerusalen," assuring them that the Patriarch 
David foretold the resurrection of Christ, and the 
glory that should follow. Peter, and the hundred 
and nineteen names with him, were bound up in 
the bundle of life with their ascended Lord, "elect 
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, 
through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience 
and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ;" and 
their baptism in Jordan, confessing their sins, was 
crowned by the Holy Ghost, sealing their bodies, 
as temples, unto the day of redemption by Christ 
the King of Israel, whose Glory Peter had seen in 
the holy mount. Who appeared in glory with 
Jesus? The two ministers of the Law before 
Christ came in the flesh. Moses the servant of 
God who brought the law to the twelve tribes of 
the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai; 
and Elijah the representative of the Law before 
the ten tribes of Israel upon Mount Carmel. The 
two men stand upon Mount Tabor with the Holy 
One, who is the minister of the circumcision for 
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unto the fathers. They are witnesses before God 
and men. The Father utters His voice out of the 
Covenant cloud. Moses and Elijah testify of the 
Divine Sacrifice. They witness before the apos- 
tles, Peter, James, and John, that Jesus is the 
Christ ; and then entered into the cloud that over- 
shadowed the Prince of peace, and his two wit- 
nesses. A voice came out of the cloud, saying, 
this is my beloved Son, hear Him. When Jesus 
afterward revealed to Peter the desire of Satan to 
destroy the literal kingdom of God, the apostle 
might have recollected at that moment, the speech 
of Moses and Elijah in the holy mount, concern- 
ing the Sacrifice, and he said, Lord I am ready to 
go with thee both into prison and to death; for 
then Peter trusted that Jesus was He that should 
redeem Israel. It should be recollected that Peter 
confessed to the lowly Son of man (i. e. the second 
man) at Cesarea Philippi, that He was the Christ, the 
Son of the living God ; and this he did by revela- 
tion of the Holy Ghost, before he saw the Glory 
in the holy mount. About six days prior to the 
transfiguration of Jesus, Peter rejected the testi- 
mony of a literal Sacrifice, of the person of His 
Master ; but after the transfiguration Peter offered 
himself as a companion of the cross; and Peter 
was a Jew. If Israel's King must suffer, let the 
Jew servant suffer with Him ; for the King had 
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to the apostles, as the Father had appointed to 
Him, and they were to sit with Him judging the 
twelve tribes of Israel. It was a noble, a magna- 
nimous speech. " Lord I am ready to go with 
thee, both into prison and to death/' Loyalty to 
the Benefactor of his scattered nation breathes in the 
hasty accents of an honest declaration, from lips 
that perhaps had never uttered a wilful lie ; for the 
Blessed Jesus would not have chosen Peter, James, 
and John to be witnesses before the Jews of His 
transfiguration, if their word could have been 
justly disputed by that jealous people. " Unlearned 
and ignorant," are the only contemptuous epithets 
pronounced on the two favoured apostles that 
wrought the notable miracle of healing a cripple 
at the Beautiful Gate of their temple, and they 
marvelled. Peter's defalcation in the doleful night 
of Satan's reign by the son of perdition, was en- 
tirely procured by unwatchfulness in the gloomy 
garden; and extreme fright at such a sudden revo- 
lution, was the judgment on his disobedience to 
the commands of His lowly Master. I (like a 
fool), give my opinion that Satan sifted Peter's 
brains, more than his conscience, and that his un- 
natural manner of denying that he knew the 
sacred prisoner, is evidence that Satan spoke by 
Peter's mouth, for it was an hour of Satan's do- 
minion over Jerusalem, when her lowly Shepherd 
was betrayed by one of Zion's sons, become apos- 
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tate, and in league with the power of the prince of 
darkness. 

" I have prayed for thee." — Salvation to mil- 
lions is in the heaven born word L The suppli- 
cator was the only begotten Son of God, the God 
of Israel. The only man that is born of woman 
by Breath, unto whom at Jordan, and Tabor, el 
elhoe Israel witnessed by voice, and by the Dove. 
"This is my beloved Son in whom I am well 
pleased." He prayed for Peter. He turned and 
looked on Peter ; and Peter wept bitterly. God 
had a bottle for Peter's tears ; and the keys of the 
kingdom of heaven rusted not in Peter's keeping. 
On the day of Pentecost, the kingdom of heaven 
was opened for all believers; and Christ was exhi- 
bited the heir to David's throne, made of God, 
both Jehovah and Messiah in the resurrection Life 
of Ages to come. At Cesarea Philippi the Holy 
One addressed his disciples, with the all important 
question, " whom, say ye, that I am ?" The Holy 
Ghost answered by Simon Peter ; and thus the 
election of Peter was manifested, and the Great 
High Priest administered His blessing, and pro- 
mised the keys of the kingdom, so, that after our 
Lord's ascension, and the Holy Ghost came, Peter 
bound on earth the powers of darkness, by the 
Holy Ghost, while three thousand souls were libe- 
rated from bondage and death : he bound the powers 
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to the Holy Ghost : and they incurred the second 
death — he loosed the fetters of the cripple, re- 
moved the bands of death from Tabitha, and 
opened the gates of grace to the Gentiles. Thus 
the Church of the first born from the dead, was 
founded upon a Jew,* and he is the representation 
of the election of Grace, according to the purpose 
of God. 
(" I have found David my servant: 
With my holy oil I have anointed Him. 
My mercy will I keep for Him forevermore, 
And my covenant shall stand fast with Him. 
His seed also will I make to endure forever, 
And His throne as the days of heaven/') 
That Christ shall reign over the house of Jacob 
forever, and in Him all the seed of Israel shall 
glory. The kingdom that is coming, is the king- 
dom of which Peter had the keys ; and Peter had 
no successor in this trust. There is no intimation 
in the Book of any such thing. Peter and Paul 
were martyred at Rome, about the same time. 
Had Paul survived Peter, he could not have taken 
in charge the keys of the kingdom. Paul was the 
apostle of the Gentiles, and the kingdom of David, 
which is the Adamic kingdom, which is the king- 
dom of God, that is to come on earth, never was 
promised to be set up for the Gentiles ; but it is ab- 

* Jesus Christ Adonai. 



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solutely decreed to restore the fallen tabernacle of 
David, restore the ruins, (even to Adam I.) and ex- 
tend its dominion afterward, over all flesh. Paul 
and Peter suffered martyrdom for the Name of 
Jesus, under Nero, the Pagan lion of Rome. Do- 
mitian succeeding him, marked the beloved John 
for a prey to his bear's claws ; but it appears could 
not effect his purpose, so he banished the aged 
apostle to the Isle of Patmos ; and this took place 
perhaps about fifteen years after Nero's bloody 
deeds were sealed up for the Great Judgment Day. 
At Patmos, the beloved John, a prisoner for the 
Word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, is 
constituted a prophet of the Apocalypse of Jesus 
Christ, that His servants may know the things which 
must shortly come to pass. In the first chapter of 
this Glorious Revelation of all Power, Might, Do- 
minion and Praise belonging to Jesus Christ, the 
Great High Priest and King of Israel, announces 
to his servant John that He has the keys of hell 
and of death, 18 v. In the third chapter it is pro- 
claimed that He hath the key of David ; and that 
He openeth, and no man shutteth ; and shutteth, 
and no man openeth. If all the people in this 
world were to proclaim a revival of holy Apostolic 
power'* upon earth, until Christ returns to open 
His literal kingdom at Mount Zion, I could not 

* I believe that the church (as an outward Assembly) fell in the 
4th century; and from that time to the 7th century, she had space 
to repent, — in 606 she was cut off. See Romans iv. 27. 



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believe it. What ! After the Lord had covered 
John with the shadow of His hand, and exhibited 
to his vision the terrors and the Glory of the 
Lord's Day, (1000 for 1, and 1 for 1000) and even 
beyond the final consummation of all things, to 
send His servant John back to Ephesus, with no 
more power than to write a book, and three letters, 
and preach "Little children love one another;" 
and then sleep in Jesus, is there any ground to 
expect the keys will be given to man a second 
time? I know of none. 

After the holy flesh passed off, and the church 
of God, according to the gospel of His Son, was 
represented by the uncircumcised flesh, or the wild 
olive tree, how soon were the marks of "fading 
away" visible upon her features and form, because 
like Eve, she was beguiled from the simplicity that 
is in Christ ; and accepted the baneful cup of mys- 
ticism. She actually let go her slender hold on the 
seamless garment of Christ, by taking a secular 
arm to shelter her from burning heat that could not 
kill the soul, and procured the wo denounced 
against trusting in man. The Emperor of Rome 
was her king, and he marred the glory of the Sab- 
bath. The sign she did not see was against her 
desire for perpetual dominion ; for her eyes began 
to squint, and she forgot it was impossible to serve 
two masters. She lost the Unity of the Spirit, in 
breaking the bond of peace, which is humility; and 



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then began to quarrel, which gladdened all the 
powers of hell, and gave advantage to Satan and 
his host. 

In 533 a Roman Emperor undertook to adjust 
her affairs, and he decided that Rome was her seat 
of glory ; and this Justinian did, in order to secure 
his Imperial dominion in the West. God suffered 
Rome to triumph, and Greece to fall. There is no 
necessity for me to portray the church in her after 
dominion, when civil and ecclesiastic rule made 
her proud, and wretched, because she had rejected 
her vocation, even to stand by faith. Her history 
is known (as to the letter), but her fall is not under- 
stood. How many efforts have been made to 
gather her children, that (frightened by their 
mother's bad doings) ran away into the wilder- 
ness. See the names of Luther, Calvin, Zuinglius, 
Wesley, Fox, &c. They shine — where ? On earth ? 
No ! they shine as pious, devoted, zealous reform- 
ers, in heaven. It is supposed by some, that a 
corrupt church is no church. Is a bad wife no 
wife ? A wife is a wife; if bad, she is the pest of 
a man's life. Rome is properly the root of the 
Gentile church that has existed since she com- 
menced persecution. The Lord, however, bears 
with her: She still owns the Tri-Unity of God. 
When her time of judgment is fully come, she will 
not confess to the Tri-Unity of God. It is impos- 
sible to transfer the Apostolic Day of Rome. Even 









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Paul would say, I planted a church at Rome. If 
the plant lives, it lives at Rome, if it is dead, it is 
dead on that spot. You see I am now on the lite- 
ral side of the question. Outward things. If the 
church at Rome had observed the directions of her 
planter, she might have shone from age to age, in 
all the heavenly splendour of the beatitudes, and 
been a light to the world, and named Apostolic. 
As things are, she is the outward church from 
apostolic time, but not now, even outwardly an 
apostolic form; for she prays to a departed woman. 
Question : Have the gates of hell prevailed against 
the church ? Never. It is my sincere belief, that 
the church that is the Pillar, and ground of the 
truth, founded upon apostles and prophets, Jesus 
Christ himself being the Chief Corner Stone, now 
sweetly sleeps in Jesus, waiting for the adoption, 
to wit, the redemption of the body ; and that in the 
time of the Glorious appearing of Jesus Christ, she 
will rise, and ascend to meet her Lord in the air, 
and so shall ever be with the Lord. 

I believe that Christ has continued the work of 
His Holy Spirit, convincing of sin, of righteousness 
and of judgment, administering forgiveness to peni- 
tent souls, and shedding his love into believing 
hearts, and that all who have grace truly to believe 
on his Name (Emmanuel), shall be saved. These 
precious blood bought souls, are members of His 
church, against which the gates of hell shall not 



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prevail. His eyes can behold them as His own 
members ; for the foundation of God standeth sure, 
having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are 
His. I believe in this age, the church will not 
resume her outward primitive form as described in 
the second chapter of the Acts of the apostles ; but 
the term churches will hold until the Revelation of 
the man of sin. 

There are now several names existing that name 
their own names, and each calls themselves the 
church, and the rest apostate, or false. 

The Arminian claims to be the church of St. 
James. 

The Greek claims that she is the oldest church. 
The Roman Catholic styles herself, "the Holy 
mother church" descended from the apostle Peter. 
The Protestant church of England, is the church 
of the reformation ; but she came out, as the chil- 
dren of Israel out of Egypt, with some of her 
mother's jewels hanging about her — say one on her 
head — another on the upper lip, &c, &c. She has, 
however, some excellent works, (and the Lord 
knows them). She has presented to the world, a 
translation of the holy Torah, the Books of the 
prophets, the Chronicles, and history of the chosen 
people, and Zimroth Jisrael, or Songs of the temple. 
Psallo, i. e. to touch sweetly; and Tchilloth, Book of 
praises. Also Schir Hascherim, i. e. the most excel- 
lent of all Songs ; for it celebrates the restoration 



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of Eden (the mount of delights), the Glory of the 
second Adam, and the felicity of His mother (the 
City), the praise of his temple (the Church), the 
holiness of his crystal river, unsealed to revive all 
nations, which is also a garden enclosed in God 
forever, as the sister, spouse, and joy of the Lamb. 
England has been honoured for this work.* 

The Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a 
flame of fire, (N. B. He hath them — remember 
this Thyatira — closed in death — that life might 
come from the dead,) knoweth England's works, 
and her charity, and service, and faith, and pa- 
tience, and works; and the last to be more than the 
first. Question: How many languages has Her 
London Bible Society, sanctified, by translations of 
her Reformation Copy ? 

But, the Son of God, hath some things against 
England : See 20th verse. t 

Now is it not plain that "Wo to the dunghill,":): 
and "a precious stone,"§ are judged very differ- 
ently ? 

To the ministry, and to the members of the 
church of England, who "have not this doctrine," 
the Son of God saith, that He will put on them, 

* Waterloo. + And see Oxford Tracts. 

X Jezebel. § Tarshish. 

N. B. I cannot avoid the conviction that England answers to 
the 19th and 20th verses; and I fear that her sufferance at Malta, 
will be mated even in London. 



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"none other burden than to give every one (indi- 
vidually) of them, according to their works," but, 
to the children of Jezebel, "I will kill them with 
Death." — Awful — the second death ! ! ! 

It seems to me then, that the church of England, 
is a great house, in which there are vessels of gold, 
(I do not say the finest — that is, virgin gold,) and 
of silver, (I do not mean the choicest — neither do I 
mean the reverse,) vessels also of earth, and also 
of wood ; and some are to honour, and some to 
dishonour. If any man therefore purge himself 
from these (vessels) he shall be a vessel unto hon- 
our, sanctified, (i. e. set apart) and meet for the 
Master's use, and prepared unto every good work. 

The great Apostle to the Gentiles did not say, 
leave the great house, and build yourself a house ; 
but " depart from iniquity." John Wesley never ex- 
communicated himself. I believe that there are 
two things, which demand a separation, viz. blas- 
phemy, (whether in words or acts ;) and persecution 
(rejection the balance,) of conscientious testimony. 

At Antioch and at Corinth, Paul declared to the 
Jews that he would leave them, and go to the Gen- 
tiles, because the Jews " opposed themselves and 
blasphemed," "spake against those things which 
were spoken by Paul, contradicting, and blas- 
pheming." 

But, I declare, conscientiously, I do not believe 
it is right, to leave the great house, that has been 



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and still is, the outward barrier against French in- 
fidelity, to build another. Preach free, (Paul did) 
wherever there is opportunity, without your name 
to honour ; and God will respect your boldness, 
your exceeding boldness ; and great will be your 
reward in Heaven, if you are persecuted for hold- 
ing the Head, and feeding the sheep. You know 
the pattern. The Bishop of souls, arrayed in a 
seamless garment, travelling about on foot in san- 
dals, styling himself the Son of man, expounding 
the Law, declaring the Grace of God, exhorting to 
humble faith and secret prayer, and living Himself 
as He taught others : you know very well that the 
holy Minister of the circumcision, was the Re- 
former ; and He declaimed against nothing that 
was brought to Israel by Moses ; but against tra- 
ditions of men; and hypocrisy of man. But the 
declaiming of Jesus, was in perfect righteousness; 
and it condemned apostacy from the Law, as 
the ground of accusation and anathema, against 
the rulers of His people, which Jesus Christ did 
represent by virtue of His commission from the 
Father, to judge all men. Let religious censures be 
pure from mixture of carnal policy, or they will 
roll reproach back on the administrator, and so 
heresies will increase, and ripen the sour grape in 
the flower. 

I will say further, if a man or a woman are so 
distressed in mind, on account of the pride and os- 



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tentation they see in the great house, the furniture, 
and the rulers, that they cannot forbear crying out, 
why not do it in the house, with reverence and 
godly fear ? Alas ! why ! sure enough ! " The 
hands hang down, and all knees are weak as 
water ;" and the days of reform are past from the 
age and every one has as much as he can do, to 
keep washing his own feet from filth, that he may 
water the Master's with tears ! The powers of 
hell stand all around the " scarcely saved" at this 
time, hedging up their way to any open duty of 
faith, and labour of love for the True King. 
Charles Wesley described their wo in the warfare: 

"Angels your march oppose, 

" Who yet in strength excel : 

" Your secret, sworn, malicious foes, 

" Countless, invisible ! 

" From thrones of glory driven, 

" By flaming vengeance hurled, 

" They throng the air, they darken heaven, 

" And rule this lower world." 
Complete now is the reign of Satan in his spirit- 
ual kingdom : accusing the brethren among the 
brethren, dividing, subdividing, and scattering them 
by his pestilential breath of pride, pretending "ye 
shall be as God," &c, stuffing heads with notions, 
calling it knowledge, swelling hearts with am- 
bition, naming it godly zeal : defiling conscience, 
making it like sounding brass, and constituting the 



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Christian type instrument, nought but a tinkling 
cymbal ! Holy God ! in the name of Jesus, thy 
poor refugees now cry, " Look on our affliction and 
our pain ; and forgive all our sin." Lord, if we 
have run with the footmen, and they have wearied 
us, then how shall we contend with horses ? O 
Lord ! thou alone canst help us, now, and in the 
lowering storm of Satan's great personal wrath, 
thou wilt put to more strength for our deliverance 
from the deadly snare; and we shall be saved, even 
as by fire ; perhaps our poor works may be burnt ; 
perhaps some little crumb may endure. I do not 
know. 

" In the land of peace, wherein we have trusted, 
they have wearied us: (the footmen) then how 
shall we do in the swelling of Jordan, i. e. in the 
time of the Man of Sin, who is the topstone of all 
the Judgments ever sent, or suffered to come upon 
a fallen world. As on the Banner of God is 
inscribed salvation, so on the Banner of Satan is 
marked damnation. When God commands des- 
truction on destruction, that Standard shall be set 
up on the walls of Babylon* a Mystery, and the 

* Persons who know me personally, understand, that I believe 
the Lord holds spiritual Babylon in abhorrence; and that He 
pities the literal, in this time of spiritual dominion of Satan. In 
Satan's literal reign by the personal Man of sin, God will exhibit 
the extent of Babylon's kingdom, in literal shape. In that Day, 
there may be a changing sides. Many may be saved that arc now 
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cry is, " thou that dwellest upon many waters, 
abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the 
measure of thy covetousness (claiming the whole 
world)." 

"The Lord of hosts hath sworn by Himself, 
saying, 

" Surely I will fill thee with men as with cater- 
pillars:" 

Ah! a great increase ! But what is the result? 
" They shall lift up a shout against thee." 
The Lord saith, 

" Behold I am against thee, destroying Moun- 
tain." (Question. Is not this the eleventh horn — 
that is, the Infidel Kingdom, the personal Wo of 
Babylon ?) 

" Which destroyest the whole earth (Abaddon Apollyon) 
And I will stretch out my hand upon thee, 
And roll thee down from the rocks, 
And will make thee a burnt mountain. — Ah! a burnt mountain ?" 

How she wanders about, (exclaims some gen- 
tleman who has taken up my book, may be to 
please his wife); yes, responds another gentleman, 
she always does. "Her writings are very irre- 
gular." A third exclaims "mystical," a fourth 
"rant," &c. &c. 

My fellow mortals, bear with my weakness. I 

with the outward Babylon, as we Protestants view Babylon ; and 
many may join her majority in their falling away to the Beast. 
Is this the fear, pit, and snare ? 



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have never been to College. 1 am not refined by 
a classical education ; nor have the walls of human 
theology circumscribed my views of original pro- 
phecy. I do not know how to write in any other 
way than this, which appears to you like making 
sketches during the whirl of a balloon in the air, or 
in going by steam at twenty miles in the hour ; or 
like mixing up preaching with a Buffaloe hunt on 
the wide prairies of the west. How kindly the 
Blessed One, (whose one Mind is Wisdom's 
eternal fountain,) treated weeping Mary ! He did 
not join with His male disciples at all, not even to 
say, Mary thou needest not to have broken the 
costly box — or, thou mightest even saved a little of 
the pure spikenard for another time. No ! Jesus 
saw her heart! Jesus knew her motive, her desires, 
and her work ! The song of her lowly sister at 
Shiloh was adapted to Mary's case; and the Lord 
might help her to repeat it. 

" Talk no more so exceeding proudly, 
Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; 
For the Lord is a God of knowledge, 
and by him actions are Weighed!" 
* * * * * # 

I must now return to the prairies, and finish the 
buffaloe hunt. I renew my claim, that the Indians 
(sent by the United States Government to the far 
West,) are scattered, peeled, meted out, and trodden 
down. The Cherokee warrior may write on his 



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breast, I am "desolate in the day of rebuke." 
Hosea v. 9. I am " oppressed and broken in judg- 
ment." (1838.) Hosea v. 11. My land strangers 
have devoured. New Echota, my beloved City, 
that was once a city of refuge for the manslayer, 
is destroyed. My " glory has flown away like a 
bird." I am "smitten." I am now as " the city 
that went out by a thousand, and left only a hun- 
dred, yea even ten to a hundred." 

The Cherokee nation are more conspicuously a 
prey than any other Indian nation belonging to 
the overspreading wing. They had left hunting to 
cultivate the ground. At the time of tearing them 
up root and branch, out of the lands for which 
their fathers treated with Charles I. of England, on 
terms lasting as time, the Cherokees (almost to a 
man) raised their own cotton, and made their own 
cloth. The nation was civilized to a happy extent. 
They had schools, churches, and a printing press. 
Their language had a grammatical construction, 
and some of them could read and write English. 
They were reformed in morals, and professed 
belief in the Gospel of Christ. Their great men 
agreed to adopt the form of a Republican govern- 
ment, and I never heard of any dissensions among 
them, till after the forced treaty was brought to 
light. ! shade of Boudinot ! ! shade of Ridge ! 
well may I say, let the white man tremble at the 
mention of your names ! ....,.*,, 



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Has oblivion a shade for the white man's sin. 
No ! The Day of judgment throws every record 
into light, the light of truth, divested of excuse, 
stripped of pretences, naked and bare before the 
God of heaven. The sin is left without a prayer. 
" Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander 
out of the way;" 

" And all the people shall say Amen." 
0! shade of the injured chieftain* of the Seminole 
Nation, what sayest thou? 

" Cursed is he that smiteth his neighbour se- 
cretly ! Yea. Wo to the man by whom the 
offence cometh!" 

Among the many marks upon the Aborigines of 
America, that rank as presumptive evidence of their 
sacred origin, is a solemn, reverential regard for 
the graves of their people. But the afflicted Chero- 
kees had not the privilege once enjoyed by Israel, 
for they know not to embalm the beloved clay in 
their outcast state, any more than do the Jews in 
their dispersions; and hallowed mounds must be 
forsaken, that were dear to the red man as the 
apple of his eye ; and sure the veins of gold in their 
lands could not seem much more precious to the 
white man — than — the apple of his eye ! 

Another significant token of the relation of Red 
men to Jacob, is their belief in foretelling, which I 

* Osceola. 



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shall illustrate by citing a relation of the dying 
scene of a king of the Cherokees, as given to me at 
Washington, in 1834, by his great grandson, Mr. 
Boudinot. 

He called for his sons, and said, "The white 
men will come to you, and they will bring their 
books. They will offer to teach you, and say it is 
good. Public roads will be made through your 
lands ; and you will afterward be driven away, 
far, far west/' 

As to "Indian cruelties," is scalping a man, 
worse than hewing him to pieces ? It is written 
that Samuel did the latter "before the Lord." And 
Samuel was never reproved by the Eternity Vic- 
tory of Israel, except that he mourned for Saul, 
whom the Lord rejected because he spared the 
king of Amalek. Saul should never have brought 
that heathen into the sacred camp. 

If the dark shades upon the Indian character, be 
brought forward against them, such as idleness 
and drunkenness, these are on sacred record, both 
in history and in prophecy, of the ten tribes of the 
children of Israel, who were driven out of the 
Lord's land, for abominations that were the results 
of idleness and drunkenness. 

Mr. Catlin told me, that he had witnessed the 
celebration of a feast like the passover, among the 
Indians, and they accounted to Mr. C. for keeping 
that feast in such a way, that it seemed to belong 



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only to the miraculous deliverance of Israel out of 
Egypt. But the Indians had not a lamb. They 
kept the feast with a little white dog. 

I think it is not necessary for me to make any 
additions now to my presumptive evidence. I 
know the origin of the red men is a disputed ques- 
tion. I know they are tribes of a mystery ; and 
sullen gloom overspreads their horizon, that no 
man seems to seek to disperse. I think they are 
descendants of Jacob. A positive affirmation is 
beyond my power. However, this is certain, they 
are my fellow beings ; and the children of Africa 
are my fellow beings ; and the land of my birth is 
a guilty land ; and I am a poor sinner saved by 
Sovereign Grace : a pilgrim also and stranger in 
the earth, without a settled home (if I desired one) 
since my father died ; and 1 can say, having 
repeated sorrows, I am affiliated by the children 
of adversity 5 but it is beyond my power to relieve 
their miseries. I have remarked that the welfare 
of the Aborigines of America, has past away like 
a cloud, from memory's page in the United States ; 
and indeed I write simple truth in representing, 
that, except from my own clay lips, my ears* are 
not saluted by a voluntary expression of the name 
Indian. Once in a while the public journals exhi- 
bit some article of horror — as an Indian has mur- 

* It is true that in New York I am alone much of my time. 



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dered a white man; or an Indian has killed an 
Indian — I say to myself, " may be so, and may be 
not," with a groan — poor outcasts — how long? 
how long? 

At the present doubtful moment (for a moment 
now seems to involve a year) the state of the meted 
out people does not engross the whole of my con- 
cern, anxiety, and dread of approaching revolutions 
upon this globe, inhabited by a generation of fallen 
Adam's race, that are covered with gross darkness. 
I read in the sacred pages of original prophecy, 
that 

"The great day of the Lord is near,* 
It is near; and hasteth greatly : (perad venture tidings are ready) 
Even the voice of the Day of the Lord : 

The mighty man shall cry there bitterly." (see Jer. xxv. 30 — 32.) 
That Day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress ; 
A Day of wasteness and desolation. 
A Day of darkness and gloominess. 
A Day of clouds, and thick darkness. 

These words are recorded in the Book of Zepha- 
niah (Secret of the Lord.) 

In the Book of Amos, fifth chapter, it is written 

"The Day of the Lord is darkness and not 

light." I feel it my duty to remark, that the sacred 

prophecies entitled " The Day of the Lord," " the 

great day of the Lord," " The great and dreadful 

* I cite word for word (see Zcphaniah i. 14, 15). I read, how- 
ever, in the light of the doctrine of " the Son of man" — see Luke 
xxi. 25 ; i. e.\ read " near," in the signs of this time. 



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Day of the Lord/' " The day of the Lord is great, 
and very terrible ; who can abide it ?" is eminently 
" The Day of Jacob's trouble;" and is represented 
by Palmonai (Wonderful Numberer) to the prophet 
Daniel, as "A time of trouble, such as never was 
since there was a nation (see Israel's beginning to 
be a nation — -see judgments on Egypt) even to that 
time ; and these two prophets specially annex to 
this wo, the deliverance of the children out of it: 
not exemption from the affliction ; but miraculously, 
(that the purpose of God, according to election 
might stand,) and by special, preventive, preserving 
Grace, saved (a remnant — i. e. as many as are 
written in the Book,) out of it, even, as plucking a 
fire brand out of the fire. 

That the Wo of this Great Day, is opened on 
Jacob's house, at Jerusalem, is evident from the 
following distinct prophecies in holy Scripture. 

Jeremiah xxv. 15 — 18 ; and 29th verses. 

Isaiah li. 19, 20th verses. Chapter lix. 9 — 11. 

Ezekiel vii. 1 — 27; and chapter ninth. 

Joel i. 6, note v. 15 ; and chapter ii. 1 — 6. 

Amos vi. 1 — 14. Comment. In the present con- 
dition of all reigning powers, what prospect is fa- 
vourable to the detention of Jerusalem from her 
own children, on the demise of the Ottoman Em- 
pire ? Is there any ? Can Rome possess Zion, 
with aid from France, Belgium, and even two 
more (now non-possessed, except in hope) assis- 
tant nations ? 



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Can the Greek Church compete with continental 
Europe ? Can England sustain her Consulate in 
Jerusalem, one hour, after Constantinople is taken? 

See then — the probability, that the prostration of 
the Moslem banner, is an allowed opportunity for 
the Jews to repossess the site of their sacred tem- 
ple. And the effect on their minds may be antici- 
pated by the little ones of Jesus, who believe that 
no substantial, lasting benefit and blessing will 
ever come on the chosen people, until they are 
thoroughly humbled, L e. purely purged from pride, 
and brought down low, by repentance like Job, in 
dust and ashes. See JoePs exhortation, i. 13, 14. 
ii. 12 — 17. The poor refugees now believe, that 
a very brief triumph may settle the Jews into a 
state of dangerous ease ; and they may stretch them- 
selves upon their couches, eat lambs out of the 
flock, and drink wine in bowls. I look strait upon 
the thirteenth verse. 

" Ye, which rejoice in a thing of nought, 
Which say, have we taken to us horns 
By our own strength?" 
What may be expected but bitter persecution of 
the Name of Jesus ? I have considered frequently 
the first clause of the second verse of Zechariah, 
fourteenth chapter. 

" I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to 
battle :" Now I know the chapter (21st verse) is 
a synopsis of the affliction, the deliverance, the 



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restoration, the blessedness and Glory of Jerusa- 
lem; but how shall I understand the 2d verse? 

I have received the following instruction : to wit, 
1. "Ye shall be hated of all nations for my Name 
sake, Matt. xxiv. 9. 

2. "Verily, I say unto you This generation shall 
not pass till all these things be fulfilled." Matt, 
xxiv. 34. 

" This generation" — In parts. 

1. The generation with iron legs and feet. 

2. The Rabbis of the Talmud. 

3. The inquiring Jews. 

4. A little flock that shall inherit the Kingdom. 

5. Mockers, scoffers, infidels. 

I look, and look and look ; and the result of my 
views is this, that the expressions " I will gather 
all nations against Jerusalem to battle," mean, that 
a determinate opposition of the Jews at Jerusalem 
to Christianity, will elicit persecution; and the 
nominal christian powers will unite, as they have 
before, (HHF* 1815, 1840), that America will as- 
sist Russia. Prussia, England ; and the others 
Rome ; and beside all these, Syria may desert the 
Beast, the False King — and Egypt too — and there 
will be " battles of shaking," tumult on tumult, and 
no decisive victory, although Jerusalem is taken, 
&c. This may be^ a true miniature ; but I am no 
prophet ; and yet I seem (like a fool) to prognosti- 
cate ; yea, and even now venture to say, that this 



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round world is to be a universal Bedlam, at the 
Second Advent, and only the Lord Himself can 
silence the wrath of the enemy ; and it is written, 
that " He shall cause His glorious voice to be heard, 
and He will show the lighting down of His Arm 
(Arm of the Lord, i. e. strength.) 

With the indignation of His anger — 
And with the flame of a devouring fire, 
With scattering (£. e. destruction) and tempest, 
And hail stones." 
Great and dreadful Day !* yes; and " of the Lord" 

— how is this? 

My fellow mortals, we need not go beyond our 
own individual experience, to decide, that the Lord 
God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, long 
suffering, and abundant in loving kindness and ten- 
der mercies. If we examine our lives, what can we 
see in them, but " sin and vanity." Is there in our 
flesh dwelling any good thing ? Hear Paul's testi- 
mony, after he had preached the Gospel, (with 
much contention), more than a score of years. 

* O" In November, A. D. 1840 (Solar) I was very sick. I 
noticed a very unpleasant smell in the air of the city. The pool 
of Hezekiah was dry : the rains had not commenced. One night 
(I cannot name the date, I was not able to write) I heard a sud- 
den roaring" noise, and then my bedstead was jerked violently, 
once — then all was still. The next morning I inhaled as sweet, 
and clear air, as I ever did in April or May, while sitting on the 
summit of the Mount of Olives. The earthquake had cleared the 
elements. 



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Romans, vii. 18; and 23,24. "1 know that in 
me (that is in my flesh) there dwelleth no good 
thing/' &c. 

! what are we, my brethren and sisters in the 
Common Salvation, in this time of almost famine 
of spiritual graces in Christ Jesus, compared with 
that unwearied Ambassador of the glorious Gos- 
pel? I look at home, what do I see? Alas ! I see 
marked on my life vanity of vanities. I am al- 
together as an unclean thing; and all my righteous- 
nesses are as filthy rags, my prayers are nothing 
worth: but for the Great Sacrifice, but for the 
complete Atonement — but for the Blood and the 
merits of the Blood of Jesus : but for His perfect 
Righteousness : His unceasing intercessions : His 
advocacy, and Mediatorship, the accents " Our 
Father which art in heaven," would die on sealed 
lips, and condemnation sink my soul in the abyss 
of despair. Could I weep till the poor blood from 
a depressed heart, should come drop by drop 
through my eyes, would my sin be less? Nay; 
and I thank His Blessed Name there is no need ; 
neither do I desire to meddle with His work of 
making a reconciliation, which glorifies even Di- 
vine Justice, in giving me free, full, unceasing ab- 
solution from all my guilt. I am a debtor to 
mercy, now, henceforth, and forever. I shall have 
a reward of Grace, on my Saviour's account : it is 



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due to Him, that suffered for me ; and I view my 
happiness in the resurrection Life, as His posses- 
sion, which he clearly purchased, and hath ob- 
tained the seal upon that sure foundation, " The 
Love of God ;" for, " God so loved the world, that 
He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever 
believeth in Him should not perish, but have ever- 
lasting Life." 0! were ever letters, (110) put to- 
gether in a form like this sentence ? Is it marvel- 
lous that martyrs found the flaming pile, a bed of 
roses ? Is it wonderful that Stephen prayed for 
his brethren that held the death stone over his 
bleeding head, while the heavens parted to show 
the dying servant His dear Master's arms ready to 
receive the escaping spirit ? the Master that spoke 
the sixteenth verse of the third chapter of John? 

Why, say you, any body, Jew or Christian, why 
ever think of any love but this ? I will respond 
with a question far more difficult to solve, and yet 
one answer suffices both at once. What was the 
first motion in Adam as he fell ? I answer pride — 
which brought Shame ! Pride opposes the Love 
of God. Pride is ashamed of such Love as 
breathes peace to a deadly foe ! See the duellist ! 
Look at Calvary ! Hark ! Father forgive them ! ! ! 
On one side, behold the flash from a pistol. On 
the other, suffering Innocence asking a boon for 
His foes, that holy angels cannot possess, — the in- 
heritance is Jesus' prayer ! 



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And Pride has no rival in Adam's dead* heart, 
from Eden until now ; but pride hath more plagues 
than Egypt, more heads than the dragon, more 
horns than the Beast, and more scales than Levi- 
athan. 

Pride is defined by the learned, " Master Sin : 
First born of the devil." 

The Blessed One hath declared unto us that His 
heart is meek and lowly. How can a proud heart 
believe on Him? How can a proud heart trust in 
him? How can a proud heart love Him? The 
proud heart in a great professor of religion, is 
equally estranged from Jesus of Nazareth, as the 
worshipper of Vishnu, Brumha, and Juggernaut, 
or, as the prophets of the Talmud. And what are 
the signs of a proud heart? Is not seeking honour 
one of another, a sign? Is not contention with 
simple truth, that vindicates the literality of God's 
holy Word, a Sign ? Is not the denial of that Apos- 
tolic doctrine, the personal reign of Christ upon 
David's throne, a Sign ? 

The Day of the Lord is decidedly against pride; 
and its appalling terrors, its destroying judgments, 
and desolating Sword, are only arrayed against the 
devil and his firstborn, the Master Sin. The body 
of Satan is to be destroyed; and the body of Christ 
is to be glorifid in the Day of the Lord. The ser- 

* See Ephesians ii. L 



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pent's Head is literal in that day; and He is king 
over all the children of pride. He has no other 
subjects. None will confess to him but the proud, 
i. e. the children of disobedience ; and these are Sa- 
tan's body, as the children of Israel are the body of 
Christ. I do not hold that these two bodies are 
visible now, but in character: not that I deny the 
presence of a literal nation, called the Jewish na- 
tion; but I see there is a great difference between 
" children of Israel" and Rebels — the latter will be 
separated from Israel; for they are as the dross of 
silver. The visibility of God's dispersed children 
is even now sufficient to answer the purpose of wit- 
nessing to mankind that the Scriptures are divine, 
although a literal book, printed by man ; and when 
Skeptics and Scoffers ridicule the Scripture, they 
are witnesses also, and the same Book that contains 
a record of Zion's Glory, has among its sacred 
leaves, the infidel's doom to shame and contempt. 
As I remarked that after the earthquake the air 
was pure, so I believe the moral elements will be 
cleansed by judgment on pride. Only consider the 
subject of the Day of the Lord. It is decreed to 
come "upon every one that is proud and lofty, and 
upon every one that is lifted up, and you may easily 
resolve the intention, the object for which the Day 
is ordained. I believe in the first place, that it 
should be studied individually; 2. relatively; and 
3. collectively. The first is imperative necessity to 



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our escape from its wo, should our mortal existence 
reach to its opening; for the sealing time precedes 
it, and the sealing is individual. " He that is unjust 
let him be unjust still; and he that is filthy let him 
be filthy still. He that is righteous let him be right- 
eous still; and he that is holy, let him be holy still. 
And behold I come quickly, and my reward is with 
me, to give every man according as his work shall 
be." 

Here is place for the remark, that in regard to an 
acquittal or condemnation, all generations must 
fare alike, the righteous go into life eternal, the 
wicked into everlasting despair. But, let us not 
forget this one thing, that in defending the doctrine 
of preparation for death, we quote to the same holy 
command, as in defending the necessity of prepa- 
ration to meet the literal exigencies of the Day of 
the coming of the Son of man; and my belief is, 
that the faith of the lowly mourner at Jesus' feet 
in Simon's house, was sealing faith, and unto the 
raward "a crown of life;" and what did she do? 
Look at her work — she anointed His body afore- 
hand for the burial. Mary Magdalene's faith had 
saved her from Satan's sifting power, and her sorrow 
was godly : it opened on her Saviour's feet, and not 
on her nation's fame : it sanctified her for the Mas- 
ter's use, and He employed her feet to run and 
bring His disciples word, and placed in her mouth 
the Olive leaf; for her testimony, "the Lord is 



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risen," shew, that the waters were assuaged from 
off the earth (our Lord's human body), and the sa- 
cred Ark was come safe through Jordan. 

Following the Lord wholly, implies entire for- 
saking of self; and cleaving to Him, signifies sepa- 
ration from the world, in which is the lust of the 
flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. How 
can any person be a follower of. the Lord, whose 
object is to prepare for death? In the words, 
" Look unto me, and be ye saved/' do we recognise 
the command, "prepare to meet thy God," in death 
or in life ? Instead of devotion to the conqueror of 
Ages that rideth the pale horse, and is followed by 
hell (the insatiable Grave) our worship must be 
paid to Israel's Victor and Eternity, whose Law 
is a fountain of life, and Himself the Spring Head 
of all true doctrine, which preserves from death, 
and prepares for life, all that truly believe on His 
Name. "I am The Lord, that is my Name; and 
my Glory will I not give to another, neither my 
praise to graven images." 

" Behold the former things are come to pass, 
And new things do I declare: 
Before they spring forth I tell you of them." 
Ah ! the Saviour of sinners (in whom I profess that 
I believe, to the redemption of my soul from death, 
although its partner on probation should fall into 
the bosom of man's primal mother,) and the Resur- 
rection even of my dust, at the coming of my Sa- 



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viour in the clouds,) is speaking? Shall I listen to 
Him? He says, "Behold the former things are 
come to pass." On the Cross I cried, " It is fin- 
ished," then bowed my head and died. 1 rose 
again. I am ascended to heaven. I have sent 
the New Comforter as I promised ; and now, 

"New things do I declare :" N. B. Now hear 
the anti-Literalist. Ah! Lord! the old suffice for 
me, a poor sinner : if my sins are forgiven, and I 
can die in peace, upon my bed, that will do, Lord, 
I am preparing for death. I have not time to " Be- 
hold new things; I have no time to spare to attend 
to their springing forth. "New things!" They 
surely cannot concern me, a weak worm. 

" fool ! and slow of heart to believe all that the 
prophets have spoken!" 

" Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, 
and his Maker, ask me of things to come ; concern- 
ing my sons, and concerning the work of my hands 
command ye me." 

Has this any reference to Christian duty? 

See John xvi. 13 — 15; and ponder the words, 
" ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be 
full." 

Objector. Joy ! What ! to study the " new 
things" that follow after the coming of the New 
Comfortor? Joy! that 

" The Lord shall go forth as a Mighty Man; and 
Stir up His jealousy like a Man of War : that 



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He shall cry, yea roar ; 
He shall prevail against His enemies ?" 
Art thou one of them ? <• I have sinned." Dost 
thou halt there ? Is it not written, that Christ Je- 
sus came into the world to save sinners ? 

Well, " I profess to have a hope, that He will- 
save me." Is this, " will save me," a gospel con- 
cern? Nay verily. See John hi. 16; and note the 
glorious tidings, "hath everlasting Life ; and open 
thy mouth that God may fill it with the praises of 
redeeming Love ; and pray that He will open thy 
heart to receive the ministry of the Spirit of truth ; 
and circumcise thine ear, to hear the voice of the Son 
of God, and to open thine eyes to look on the things 
of Jesus, that the New Comforter will take of the 
soul of prophecy, and glorify the Saviour of Israel, 
by showing unto you "things to come." 

Saved sinners, are called to be saints, in the 
Lord, and not in themselves; for never should they 
forget their sin : " I am not meet to be called an 
apostle (said Paul the servant of Jesus Christ) 
because I persecuted the church of God. But by 
the grace of God I am what I am; and His grace 
which was bestowed upon me was not in vain." 
What is the proof Saint Paul? Didst thou fold 
thy hands in a corner, to prepare for death ? "I 
laboured more abundantly, although the least of 
the apostles; and though the Divine Master I serve, 
was seen by me as one born out of due time, that 



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is, before the Glory of Joseph's Shepherd, the 
Glory of Israel's Redeemer is come to Zion, to 
turn ungodliness away from Jacob, yet I rejoice in 
the Light of His face, and I glory in His cross, 
which I bear about with me, for his Name, not 
shunning to declare the whole counsel of God, to 
the praise of His Glory, for 

The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven 

In flaming fire, taking vengeance." 
What a Gospel ! This must be strong meat, that 
some are not able to bear; is it not? Nay. It is 
the sincere milk of the word : it is Salvation more 
fully developed, even the entire exposition of the 
necessity that was laid upon Christ to suffer, and 
to rise from the dead the third day ; and every soul 
that hath tasted that the Lord is gracious, may 
grow thereby, coming unto Jesus, as unto a living 
Stone, chosen of God and precious, having faith 
toward God, that all flesh shall see His Salvation, 
and all the earth be filled with His Glory. 

The great apostle of the Gentiles reproved the 
Hebrews (that believed enough to be greeted 
"holy brethren") for being dull of hearing, so that 
it was hard to speak to them concerning their 
King, the Prince of peace; and Paul said that when 
(for the time) they ought to have been teachers, it 
seemed to be necessary for some one to teach 
them again the first principles of the Oracles of 
God; but the apostle faithfully warned them not 



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to forsake the doctrine of the "power of the Age 
to come," for to deny it is a sin for which there is 
no repentance, seeing that it is crucifying the Son 
of God afresh, and putting Him to open shame. 
The apostle concluded his warning by comparing 
true believers to earth, that drinketh the rain, and 
bringeth forth herbs, meet for use, and receiveth 
blessing from God; and those who decline tasting 
the good word of God, and the powers of the Age 
to come, are like earth that bringeth forth briars 
and thorns, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is 
to be burned. Then the apostle says, "But be- 
loved, we hope better things of you, and things 
that accompany salvation, although we thus 
speak." 

" Briars and thorns." The first are teazing, and 
rather painful : the last tear flesh apart. I cannot 
tell which is the worst doctrine of the two most 
generally taught in this country at this time, 
whether the briars that teaze, or the thorns that 
tear ; but I think either and both oppose the risen 
Saviour of Israel, who saith, 
" Behold the former things are come to pass, 

And new things do I declare : 

Before they spring forth, /tell you of them." 
Now, I want to pin your sleeve to this text, until 
you shall confess that the prophecy of scripture 
which relates to the birth (Isaiah ix. 14) of Christ, 
is no more than on par with the literality of His 



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reign (personally — by Presence) over the house of 
Jacob, and sitting upon David's throne, as recorded 
in the Books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Micah, and 
Ezekiel. The two last I cite on this page. See 1 
Ezekiel 34. The chapter commences with a pro- 
phecy against the shepherds (the Kings) of Israel, 
that feed themselves, and starve the flock. The 
sheep of God wander, having no King; and be- 
come a prey. The Lord says, even the Lord 
God, "Behold, I, even 1, will both search my 
sheep, and seek them out. 

"As a Shepherd seeketh out his flock, in the 
day that he is among the sheep, that are scattered, 
so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them 
out of all places where they have been scattered in 
the cloudy and dark day. 

And I will bring them out from the people, 

And gather them from the countries, 

And will bring them to their own land, 

And feed them upon the mountains of Israel, 

By the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 

I will seek that which was lost, 

And bring again that which was driven away, 

And will bind up that which was broken, 

And will strengthen that which was sick. 

But — J will destroy the fat, and the strong, 

I will feed them with Judgment. 

J Behold ! I judge between cattle and cattle — ) 
I Between the rams and the he goats. \ 

Now look out of the windows; 

Now look up to the opening heavens; and 



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Remember Peter's words, 

" And he shall send Jesus Christ 
Who before was preached unto you — 
Whom the heavens must receive 
Until the times of restitution" 

Which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His 

holy prophets since the world began : 

" I will set up one Shepherd over them 
And He shall feed them : 
Even my servant David." 
Micah.— " Thou Bethlehem Ephrata, 

Though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, 
Yet out of thee shall He come forth unto me, 
That is to be Ruler in Israel." 
" They shall smite the Judge of Israel upon the cheek, 
Therefore will He give them up, (O ! Jerusalem, Jerusalem !) 
Until the time, that she which travaileth* 
Hath brought forth :" 

Until the time come that Jerusalem shall mourn 
for Messiah, as one mourneth for an only son ; and 
shall be in bitterness for Him, as for a first born. 
Turn back to Ezekiel. Look at the seventh 
chapter. Note the whole of the chapter; and the 
close, viz. 

"And they shall know that I am the Lord." 
Now return to Micah. " Then shall the remnant 
of His brethren return unto the children of Israel." 
(N. B. The literal remnant of David's house.) 

* Jer. xxiii. and Zech. xii. 10-14. 



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"And He (the Judge of Israel) shall stand and 

feed in the strength of the Lord," 
" In the majesty of the Name of the Lord (Rev. i.) 

His God, (See Matt, xxv., HHP " Son of Man") 

And they shall abide." 
Note. It is written that the tabernacle of God shall 
be with men. See John xiv. 23. Note. "And 
my Father Himself will love him." 

And we will come, and make our abode with 
him. Note. Jeremiah xxxi. 10. "He that scat- 
tered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a 
shepherd doth his flock." 

Query. Is not the person of the shepherd in spe- 
cial request? 

Note. Zech. xiii. 7 ; and Matt. xxvi. 31. 

"And Jesus said unto them, All ye shall be 
offended because of me this night; for it is writ- 
ten I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of 
the flock shall be scattered abroad." 

Is it difficult to comprehend the figures "flock," 
and "sheep?" — Ezekiel xxxiv. Are not despisers 
of the literal flock judged already ? Does not the 
doctrine that annihilates the hope of God's ancient 
people " thrust with side and shoulder, and push 
them with horns?" ! take care that you go not 
too far away from the truth, to hear the voice, that 
cries, 

" Behold the former things are come to pass, 
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And new things do I declare: 

Before they spring forth, I tell you of them." 

The preceding verse announces the Author of 
the new things, and that He will declare them, 
unto whom the Holy Spirit commands that a New 
Song be sung, and His praise from the end of the 
earth. The " New Song," sung before the throne 
(Mount Zion,) Rev. xiv. and the Song of Moses 
and the Lamb (united i. e. one harmony) on the sea 
of glass, and the new Song, as sung by the four 
living creatures, and the four and twenty elders, all 
prostrated before the Lamb, with seven horns and 
seven eyes, are all perfectly arranged in order of 
new things, to follow after the coming to pass of 
former, or the first things, that concern man's first 
breath of heavenly life, (t. e. eternal life) by Christ, 
the Son of Man from the tomb, to which He went 
by way of the t to which He went (by the way of 
a Jew's palace, and the hall of judgment to stand 
before a Roman Governor) from the garden. 

I do consider the 10th verse of the xlii. Isaiah, as 
a very choice pearl of prophecy, locked up in the 
Cabinet that contains the New things ; and there is 
but one key that can open that cabinet ; and that is 
the key of David. The simple hearted Literalist, 
that believes equally in the Divine Presence on hu- 
manity, and human presence with Divinity, is 
delighted with a glance of the outside of the splen- 
did Casket ; and his soul pants to find even the 



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handles of the lock, and there to set a watch for the 
Beloved. The literal believer in original prophecy 
is not allowed to dip his pen in mysticism, and 
draw off a mingled scheme of interpretation. He 
is conscious of rectitude in the belief, that a bless- 
ing is intended for him, in pursuing means to be- 
come acquainted with the hidden Wisdom ordained 
of God, while love to Jesus, whose Name is ex- 
alted above every other, is the head spring of 
motive to desire. I mean this — why do I desire to 
understand the holy Book of revelations ? Answer 
— Because I believe in the truth ; the verity of the 
title page, " to wit, " The Revelation of Jesus 
Christ" 

This title is a mine of eternal consequences. 
There is an attraction in the sound, and blessed are 
they who (by drawing love of the Father of 
Lights) are ready to pay devout attention to the 
mysterious yet holy, true, and faithful record of the 
Lord's day. I confess my incompetency to inter- 
pretation of the prophecy of this Book ; but I am 
not discouraged from reading it, nor will I shun the 
mention of its wonders, because it is the Revelation 
of Jesus Christ, my Saviour ; and if He permit, I 
shall write a little about it, sincerely desiring to 
keep the things which are written therein for I 
need the blessing. 

I shall now make one bold stroke, (by impres- 
sion) and at the expense of reputation for ortho* 



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doxy with my very few companions in belief of the 
literal accomplishment of the things that are writ- 
ten. The title of the Book is my plea : and I even 
venture to add, is my defence (impression is insuf- 
ficient,) and immediate revelation I do not assume. 
" Revelation of Jesus Christ. " 

I believe this is wholly devoted to the original 
prophetic testimony, that embraces and includes all 
that the Holy Ghost intended by " times of resti- 
tution of all things which God hath spoken by the 
mouth of all his holy prophets since the world 
began ;" and that " the Great and dreadful Day of 
the Lord/' " The day of Christ ;" and the " Day of 
God;" have each their special concern ; and that 
these three are resolved into one subject, and di- 
vinely entitled — 

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, 
Which Is, and which was, 
And which Is to come. 

The great and dreadful Day of the Lord, is not 
yet opened. 

" Behold I send you, Elijah the prophet, before 
the coming of the great and dreadful Day of the 
Lord ; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers 
to the children, and the heart of the children to 
the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a 
curse." 

It is an evident, and a very awful truth, (accord- 
ing to prophecy of the Scripture), that the Lord's. 



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flock (" And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture,* 
are men,") are ready to despair, as the rebels are to 
presume, when the two nations struggle even in' 
Zion's womb, and the first comes out red, and the 
younger takes hold of his heel, intending to prevent 
him ; and his name is called Jacob. In the spirit- 
ualizing departments of holy prophecy, where indi- 
viduals are typical characters, some latitude is 
given for a transposition, if leading events require, 
to answer all the dimensions of prophecy ; but no 
such thing is permitted to outstand, or to destroy 
the literal fact. That must remain as it was from 
its beginning. So Rachel is raised from the dead, 
a daughter of Adam — this is literal ; and, we know 
that Jacob and Esau will be literally raised from 
the dead. But Leah and Rachel in their typical 
character represent Zion ; and her children quarrel. 
Now I take liberty — and I know I feel very inno- 
cent in the liberty, because I am just as much, and 
nothing more than a saw : — But I really do appre- 
hend that the end of the times of the Gentiles, does 
not leave the Great Jacob destitute of his eldest 
son ; but as names are sometimes altered, I call 
his first born Ephraim, when Esau (finishing) is 
indeed for stubble, and there shall be nothing re- 
maining of him, for Ephraim takes his place, and 
Zion possesses that remnant. Two nations are in 

* Pasture — the Holy Land ; of which Jerusalem is the elect 
place of the soles of His feet. — See Gen. 2d and 3d chapters. 



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Zion's womb ; and when she inquires of Adonai, 
the quarrel will be appeased. "To the Law and 
to the testimony." See Rebekah's praise. 

" Be thou the mother of thousands of millions ; 

" And let thy Seed possess the gate of those 
which hate them :" them, i. e. thousands of mil- 
lions : 

Turn over to Daniel vii. 10; and to Rev. v. 11. 
"If so, why am I thus!" cried Rebekah, for she 
felt in danger of death, and that Isaac had prayed 
in vain. She then, inquired of the Lord. She was 
told of two nations of brotherhood; but the younger 
should have pre-eminence in the times of restitu- 
tion, when Zion's Excellent One shall return to the 
children of Israel, who are as Edom and Ethiopia, 
while the Gentiles are as Samaria (His Diamond) 
and Jerusalem (they shall see Peace.) 

We know that our Peace came not from Edom 
and Bozrah, to make propitiation for the sin of 
Eden, which is the sin of the whole world. See 
Paul. Yet He is the Seed of Rebekah, and she 
shall not be robbed of her two nations, although 
two kinds of people shall be separated from her 
flesh ; but, when it comes to the literal brotherhood, 
I understand " the elder shall serve, not be destroy- 
ed, neither be a slave ; but, in the family, " He that 
serveth," which Levi (for Reuben lost his power) 
did first : Judah second : both personal. Moses 
and Christ : and third the adopted heir of the prev- 



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alent Prince nationally. See Joseph the type ; arid 
how this is to come about, time will show. The 
younger wasted his portion. Ephraiin joined him- 
self to idols. He laughed the messengers of Heze- 
kiah to scorn. He fed swine, and eat unclean things 
as they. In this state He is rebuked, and becomes 
desolate. He is dead. But, " the Father liveth," 
and He says the corn is safe. He will quicken 
Ephraim again, and he shall bemoan himself, " I 
will arise, and go to my father," &c. See Hosea 
ii. 7. See the promise in chapter xiii. " I will re- 
deem them from death." The wife of whoredoms 
is put away : her Jezreel is scattered, and becomes 
like the chaff of the summer threshing floor : her 
Loruhamah is not pitied: her Loammi is cut off; 
and in the place where it was said unto them ye 
are not my people (see 2 Kings vii.) there it shall 
be said, unto them, ye are the sons of the living 
God. You see, there is a re-action ; and it is writ- 
ten, that judgment shall return unto righteousness; 
for the counsel of the Lord must not fail. 

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Daniel: "I saw in my vision by night, and 
behold the four winds of heaven strove upon the 
great sea. (See Ezekiel xlvii. 20.) And four 
Beasts come up from the sea ; and the fourth is most 
dreadful ; and it is different from all the beasts that 
were before it. This beast has ten horns. I con- 
sidered the horns, and behold, there came up among 



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them a little horn, before whom there were three 
of the first horns plucked up by the roots :" (Ques- 
tion. Has any Pope plucked up three of Rome's 
ten horns ?) And behold in this horn (in this king- 
dom) there were eyes like the eyes of a man, and 
a mouth speaking great things. "I beheld, till the 
thrones were cast down (fallen away) ; or set up 
(on infidel base) ; and then the Day of vengeance 
is commenced, and not before ; for the eleventh 
horn has not yet obtained the kingdom of David, 
by flatteries ; nor can he, until the Mohammedan 
imposture (which is a type) is taken away from 
the holy mountain ; and a revolution take place. 

In fine, it is as plain as A, B, C, that the Ancient 
of Days does not sit upon his throne of flame, that 
has wheels of burning fire, until the ten thrones 
are set up for the eleventh horn ; and the latter 
"wears out the saints of the Most High;' 5 for they 
are given into his hand, until a time (a year) and 
times (two years) and a dividing of time (half a 
year) are fulfilled. 

Daniel was desirous of a farther explanation than 
"the man clothed in linen afforded him;" but he 
did not obtain it. He is informed that the words 
are closed up, and sealed till the time of the end. 

The Book of the 

Revelation of Jesus Christ, 
was deposited in the Christian Church. She was 
not content to be militant. She waited not for the 



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Lord's return, the Lord of the Sabbath. She 
accepted a king, and his Strange Day ; and altered 
the title of the Book of the Revelation of Jesus 
Christ, so the consequence is, that her eyes are 
darkened, and she cannot discern the person of the 
injured Sovereign upon David's throne. She pro- 
claims Him continually slain for her banquet, and 
that God's Zion has no David. On these, and 
other accounts, she is called the Mother of harlots, 
in her last fall. Her rejection of the station assigned 
by the Delegate of Messiah to the Gentiles, (for 
depend His own Presence is reserved for the Jews,) 
procures for her the "Wo to you that are rich; for 
ye have received your consolation !" 

Wo unto you that are full ! for ye shall hunger ! 
Wo unto you that laugh now ! for ye shall mourn 
and weep ! 

Alas ! she built her house on earth, and called it 
her Rock. Yet Peter never built for her so much 
as a tent. Paul is the Master Builder for the Gen- 
tiles ; and he built on the Rock of Ages, and scolded 
Peter when Peter deserved it. It is dangerous to 
reject an Ambassador for the Great King, espe- 
cially Paul ; for he had power to deliver some to 
Satan. 

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Now to the face of the bold stroke. Question. 
For whom was prophecy given? For the woman's 
Seed, the Lord God manifested in the flesh ! For 
whom was it given after the flood? For the Lord 
God of Shem ? And continued, until the Law ? 
For the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ? And 
at the giving of the Law, and in the prophets, and 
in the Psalms ? For the same, which is, the Holy 
One of Israel, and their King. Has the Gospel 
destroyed the Law ! " God forbid, yea it estab- 
lishes the Law, upon a New Covenant." The 
Moral Law is glorified by the Gospel. The cere- 
monial Law is magnified by the Gospel. The 
civil Law is magnified by the Gospel in a New 
Covenant : Written in the heart of man (all Israel) 
by the finger of God, not on tables of stone, but in 
fleshly tables of the heart, the ceremonial Law is 
the beauty of holiness, and the Ecclesiastical and 
civil Rule have Blessed dominion by Christ Jesus, 
who is the only Potentate, King of kings and Lord 
of lords. To Him pertains the Divine LoRDship, 
over the house of Jacob, and to the latter by Him, 
over the whole world. What a change at the 
Revelation of Jesus Christ ! And what is the pre- 
paration on earth for this magnificent explication 
(in fulfilment — every jot — every tittle) of all holy 
prophecy of the scriptures ? Has the mission of 
Elijah and his fellow witness quelled the infidel 
growl of the false prophet, or shamed the Usurpa- 



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tion of Apollyon ? No. The testimony shuts up 
heaven — there is no rain : it pours in fire, and turns 
waters to blood ; there is no mixture so awful, as 
judgment without mercy, for therein the man devil 
is exhibited : the Strong Delusion — the Lie — hor- 
rible Cup — full of mixture. What preparation can 
be made in such an awful time ? The days expire 
— the two prophets have finished their testimony. 
The Beast kills them. Their dead bodies are 
unburied. Three days and a half this spectacle 
calls upon the heavens to be astonished, and hor- 
ribly afraid ; and to be very desolate, saith the 
Lord. The two slain witnesses rise, and stand 
upon their feet. Their enemies quake with fear at 
the sight. A great voice calls from above, Come 
up hither ; and they ascend upon a cloud. Sack- 
cloth is girded about them no more : it is a shroud 
for the sun ; and the moon is his fellow witness as 
blood ; but on earth there is no faith. The saints 
of Jesus, a glorious army of martyrs are caught up 
to meet the Lord in the air, and (blessings on their 
flight) escape the Bedlam of wide open hell ! The 
Beast saith, " 1 will ascend into heaven. I will 
exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will 
ascend above the height of the clouds. I will be 
like the Most High." 

No, no, Mr. Lucifer ! Thus far shalt thou come, 
but no farther : thou shalt ascend up out of the 
bottomless pit, and come into the pleasant land, 



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which becomes a wilderness (dark, and without 
order — even the light is as darkness) by thy reign. 
Wonderful works and doings are thine, " Anointed 
cherub" that covereth ; but nothing less of cover- 
ing is thy spirit, than the old, crooked, piercing 
serpent, who fell in himself, without law, Gospel 
or tempter. His own celestial wisdom, (perfect in 
immortal abodes — estate first in bliss ; and put in 
sacred trust to dwell in Eden the garden of God, 
even upon the holy mountain of God) lifted him 
up, and he corrupted his wisdom by reason of his 
brightness ; and God speaks to him in thee, ! 
man of sin, and the decree is, " I will destroy thee, 
! covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of 
fire." Great is the mystery of iniquity, especially 
in the work of Satan's literal head, that Lawless 
one, the son of perdition. Yea, great is the mys- 
tery of iniquity — Satan manifested in flesh ad- 
dressed as the Prince of Tyrus in his minorship, 
and his first death foretold as follows : 

" Thus saith the Lord God : 
Because thou hast set thy heart, as the heart of 
God. 
Behold ! I will bring strangers upon thee, — 
The terrible of the nations (allied Powers,) 
And they shall draw their swords against the 
beauty of thy wisdom ; 

And they shall defile thy brightness: 
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down to the pit; (take thee captive), and thou shalt 
die the deaths — " the deaths," (Paul was in deaths 
oft during his apostleship in warfare.) The would 
be God, must "die the deaths of them that are 
slain in the midst of the seas." 

N. B. " Swords are against the beauty of his 
wisdom" — but the words " thou shalt die the 
deaths of the uncircumcised, by the hand of 
strangers," looks like " the cup of the Lord's right 
hand," which is "the cup of trembling" — this cup 
may be administered by strangers to the Lord, and 
his execution by them. Continual fear, anxiety, 
and mortification of the great pride by very con- 
stant watch of offended opposers, may bring on 
disease that is likened to " shameful spewing." 

Anti-Christ, at his emerging from the bottomless 
pit is inquired of " Wilt thou yet say before Him 
that slayeth thee," I am God ! But thou shalt be 
a man, and no God, in the hand of Him that slay- 
eth thee. 

See Paul: "Whom the Lord will consume by the 
Breath of His mouth, and destroy the brightness 
of his coming." 

See Isaiah xi. " Smite the earth (that man) with 
the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His 
lips He shall slay The Wicked." 

See — both are to be destroyed by One, even the 
Lord. 

The prophet Ezekiel is commanded by the Word 



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of the Lord to take up a lamentation upon the 
king of Tyrus : I have before noticed it ; but 
there is something more to be said, as I gladly em- 
brace a hope that I am now finishing my testimony 
concerning the personal reign of Satan ; it is a most 
horrid subject ; but a subject necessary to be stu- 
died carefully ; for though knowledge of evil causes 
pain, it is better to suffer this, than to be ignorant 
of Satan's devices ; and I can seriously assure my 
fellow travellers on the road to a righteous judg- 
ment seat, that the doctrine of the reign of Anti- 
Christ by a spirit without " the man," is a prior 
delusion, preparative to the fatal deception ; and it 
grows out of the heresy of a reign of Christ upon 
earth, by man without the Glorious Presence of 
the Lord God, and the failure of both Law and 
Gospel is caused by pride, that is the nurse of igno- 
rance, and so, the character of Christ, in the second 
Man, or the last Adam is not apprehended, even 
that he is Creation's Restorer, as well as Zion's 
King ; and that He is this character, under Name 
of David (Beloved), is not allowed by Anti-literal 
interpreters of the testimony of Jesus. Nor is the 
Jew less to blame than the Laodicean party ; for 
he ought to know that the death of Abel cannot be 
forgotten by His Lord ; and how can that martyr's 
blood be avenged on the earth, except the Seed of 
the woman shall bruise the Serpent's Head ? Did 
Abel's blood cry to the Lord from the ground ? I 



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turn to the Christian now, and ask, was not the 
responsive cry heard from the cross, and not before ? 
Was it literal ? Did the dying cry of the Martyr 
Lamb fail to reach AbePs case, whom Eve named 
her vanity? Where is AbePs hope, but for the Me- 
diatorship of the appointed seed ? ! my soul ! thou 
hast trodden down strength, cries the Lamb that was 
slain from the foundation of the world ! death ! I 
will be thy plague ! grave I will be thy destruc- 
tion. Abel has a white robe ; and he rests a little 
season, until the Antitype of Cain shall be revealed. 
Then, the original of wickedness, is lamented upon, 
in form of a man, the king of Tyrus; and the man 
was before the Prince of Tyrus, and had his doom 
read to him then ; but in his second appearing, he 
has possession of power that he had not before ; 
and this is Satan, even that old serpent, whose days 
wear out time, while the race he ruined pass off 
like smoke, by his set up spiritual king, the king of 
terrors. But, behold! there is a challenge given 
to this king, and by Man too ; and the battle is 
fought, the victory is won ; and the Conqueror is 
ascended above the Heavens, wearing immortal 
scars that proclaim Him worthy, and none but He, 
to take the flaming Sword, and slay the cherub 
that walks among stones of fire. " So let all thine 
enemies perish, Lord; but let them that love 
thee be as the sun when he goeth forth in his 
might ;" and the curse be removed from the land. 



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By the wickedness of the Wicked, to wit, Satan 
and man in league against the Holy One of Israel, 
dominion is taken from the children of the Sanc- 
tuary, and the latter is a vision of judgment, that 
was named by her true King the vision of peace. 
At the time of Daniel's visions, Jerusalem and 
her children were a reproach much more, than now, 
which is not by means of any special favour of 
her rightful Sovereign ; but is the cunning craft of 
Satan, whose wrath is always burning against the 
Eden of the Lord. But judgment is almost per- 
petual on Jerusalem in some form or other, and 
must be, until the time come when her children 
shall say, Blessed is He that cometh in the Name 
of the Lord. This must be done with one voice. 
It is the pure language : it is the tone of heaven : 
the harmony of Grace, the Grace of God; and the 
long delay sickens the fainting spirit, even to a de- 
gree that inclines somewhat to repining ; but, 0, 
when on the other hand, the impossibility of that 
dawn of Glory, until Satan is allowed his myste- 
rious short time of great wrath, is set before us in 
the word of inspiration, what can we say ? 

Indeed, I know of nothing safe to say but, 

Our Father which art in heaven, 

Hallowed be Thy Name : 

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done 

In earth as it is in heaven. 

Give us this day our daily bread, 






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And forgive us our debts as we forgive our 
debtors. 

And lead us not into temptation, 

But deliver us from evil ; 
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the 
Glory, forever. Amen. 

I have reason to believe, that this blessed form 
of prayer is neither understood, (as to its merciful 
intent to us, and its due honour to God,) or set by 
now, even by the little ones, as present occasion 
imperatively requires; but I hope, as tokens of the 
woful time become more evident, that we shall 
cling to His precious Name more closely, and re- 
member the prayer that was placed on our infant 
lips, breathing instantly, " Our Father," &c. — as it 
was commanded before our Lord was delivered 
up to be slain. For, ! christian ! did not Jesus 
know our necessity then; and does He not look 
upon us now ? We hope so. ! I do ! I know 
He looks down upon me this night; and its 
watches are all His watches for me; for I can 
look to no other eye to pity my weakness, to inter- 
cede for my helpless soul, and keep me safe, body, 
soul, and spirit, safe from assaults, devices, and 
temptations of the wrathful enemy, the seducing 
Spirit, that anon takes shelter in earth to finish 
His dreadful work, of hunting souls for prey to 
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Two opposites are set before us in the holy- 
Scriptures : to wit : 

Death and Life. 
I have cited the Power of evil first, because it 
now bears sway in the earth, and will bear sway 
until the Kingdom of pride is overthrown by the 
Word of God, who is Living and Powerful, who 
shall mar the face of pride, in the Day of His ap- 
pearing, as the visage of lowliness was marred 
in the Night of hiding. 

" This is your hour," said the lowly Lamb, (in 
whom pride had no place) to the chief priests, and 
elders, and captains of the temple, as they came to 
take Him ; and what else ? " the power of dark- 
ness." — The first born of the devil is the power of 
darkness, even pride ; and the time of its reign over 
the person of Christ, was in possession of the Jew- 
ish rulers : Pilate has the lesser sin, although by 
his consent, Jesus is slain. 

Is it difficult to understand that pride is the 
mother, sister and brother of death ; and now, is 
not death the last enemy that shall be destroyed ? 
Is not the Original of pride cast into the lake of fire, 
at the last judgment, as his head Son, (and that 
Son's co-partner) is cast therein, at the first judg- 
ment ? Is not the first judgment a sure token that 
pride shall reign no more ? I say reign* — I do not 
say exist.t 

* Pride cannot reign while Satan is bound. 
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Blessed be the Judge of pride ! He is the very 
Opposite in character, even when arrayed in all the 
Infinity of Power, in all the Majesty of Rule, in all 
the Brightness of Divine Glory, He is Lowly, hav- 
ing Salvation, for the torn remnant, of which He 
is the Living Head ! Yea, when God ariseth to 
scatter His enemies, and driveth them away as 
smoke, when they become as the fat of lambs, and 
melt away as wax before the fire, He is Judge in 
that holy habitation, " the Excellent" of David's 
house, who "shall 'not break the bruised reed, nor 
quench the smoking flax ;" and true is the word, 
that Jerusalem is the vision of Peace, by Him who 
styled Himself at His glorious epiphany (as in His 
humiliation; Matt. xvi. 21; Mark xiv. 20, 21.) 
" the Son of man." — In the Glory, His body is like 
the beryl (or agate) showing that the house of 
Joseph and the house of Judah are one, in Him, 
" The Stone of Israel," elect, precious ! But this 
body is clothed with a garment down to the foot. 
Now, if you will, you may perceive the Mediator- 
ship that is Glorious for God, and peaceful for man; 
but the condescension of God to His people is, and 
shall be, the wisdom of God in a mystery, to men 
and angels, who will render praise (for " blessing, 
honour, glory, and power,) bestowed upon the 
Remnant (or Zion) (in the Day of pride's ruin,) 
unto Him that sitteth upon the throne (of David) 
and unto the Lamb forever ever, and ever ;" and to 



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this, all Israel shall respond Amen, saying Holy, 
Holy, Holy, is the Lord God, Almighty, which 
was, which is, and which is to come ; for the Glory 
is a flowing stream that has water to the ankles, 
water to the knees, water to the loins : all for heal- 
ing: And waters to swim in, all for glory, and 
praise to Him who is their Rock forever, however 
smitten, however lightly esteemed, and long time a 
Rock of offence : Yea, because of pride, Adam's 
sin. The reign of Christ is pride's destruction. 
His Day is against it. The figures that represent its 
nursery, are, Cedars of Lebanon, Oaks of Bashan, 
high mountains, hills lifted up, fenced walls, high 
towers, ships of Tarshish, pleasant pictures, lofti- 
ness of man, haughtiness of men, and idols ; and 
these figures of pride, are literal objects too, objects 
of desire, and they must all be abolished in the 
Great Day of the Lord. 

The condescending Lord God of Israel perfectly 
illustrates His former declaration, " I am meek and 
lowly in heart," even while He disciplines them in 
the wilderness, before they enter on everlasting 
possession of the land, which He gave to their 
fathers. He says to them " I will plead with you 
face to face." And "I will sprinkle clean water 
upon you, and ye shall be clean. A new heart 
will I give you." 

" Resigned, submissive, lowly, meek, 
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Like Him, who smitten on the cheek, 

Ask'd why — and said no more." 
In this great reformation, which has never had a 
beginning, (not even Acts ii.) there is great mourn- 
ing for sin, sore lamentation for iniquity : yea, equal 
to the preceding horror of judgment. Such an illu- 
mination as the Presence of Jesus affords in that 
Day, that even pure Seraphims, or glorious spirits 
of fire conceal beneath their wings barely sufficient 
to prevent annihilation : — the moan of Isaiah is his 
nation's moan ; and the cry of Habakkuk is his 
nation's cry ; and pride is slain in that conflict, so, 
that it comes to pass, " Thy people are willing in 
the day of Thy power. 

" In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of 
the morning : Thou hast the dew of thy youth." 
Yes. The Blessed Jesus is coming to set up a 
kingdom : not to continue, or to reform one already 
set up. He told Pilate, that His kingdom was not 
of the Roman age. The Blessed One asks no 
favours of man, woman or angel. He comes to 
minister — not to receive help. And I must report 
also, that He comes with 

" A whip for the horse, 

A bridle for the ass, 

And a rod for the fooPs back." 

It seems to be a very great mountain of difficulty 

to this professing age, that the Jews are to possess 

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Person, and the great objection to the latter, is 
founded in their own judgment of the former. If 
I believed in a restricted reign of blessedness (call- 
ed Millennium) I could supply myself with a host 
of objections to the pre-millennial Advent of the 
Lord Jesus Christ. If I believed that He will pass 
over the ordination of God, to Judge the quick (t. e. 
the living) I certainly should not expect Him to 
come at all ; for I read that the dead small and great, 
stand before God,* after the destruction of all visible 
creation, except a great white throne. Now I be- 
lieve that Christ is the Holy One of Israel : that He 
took a part in human flesh, only a part ; and this 
was below angels, yet separate from sin, because 
the earthen vessel that received Him, was prepared 
by the Spirit of God ; for, said Gabriel, "with God 
nothing shall be impossible." I believe that Christ, 
born of a holy virgin, is not (as the first Adam) of 
the earth, earthly, but inasmuch as He was born 
of woman, who is a single stem of the living soul 
(Man) I consider that Christ, as the last Adam, is 
a quickening Spirit, clothed with a body that con- 
stitutes Him the second Man ; and that His person 
is the tabernacle of God. This I believe is the 
truth. Now # it follows, of course, that the earth is 
Christ's literal Mother ; and His Lordship honour- 
ed it, in praying that He might be glorified per- 
sonally; and, I ask how did Christ come forth from 

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the tomb ? A Spirit ? See His own words, " A 
spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have." 
It was in Jerusalem, and in the night that followed 
the first day of the first week that records immor- 
tality brought to light, our Divine and holy Lord 
God, Israel's Redeemer, and Zion's King, exhibit- 
ed the miracle in Himself, more abundant than on 
Lazarus ; for His voice revived Lazarus, whose 
blood remained, but Jesus had shed every drop of 
that life for living sacrifice, and kept the flesh 
glorified by the Father, to give (hereafter) Life to 
the world. That Heavenly manna was taken from 
earth to heaven ; and as manna was given from 
heaven to the children of Israel in the wilderness, 
so will Christ, the Bread of Life, be dispensed to 
the children of Israel, in the times of restitution of 
all things which God hath spoken by the mouth 
of all his holy prophets, since the world began ; 
and Christ, as the Rock of Israel, falls upon the 
kingdoms that are devoted to the eleventh horn 
upon the fourth Beast, and grinds them to powder. 
There is no more Dominion for the Gentiles, upon 
earth, so long as it endures. A new Kingdom is 
to be set up or to come on earth; "and it shall 
stand forever." At the commencement of this 
Kingdom, there is a dispensation of grace to the 
house of David, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem ; 
and there is giving of repentance and pardon to all 
Israel ; and much washing, and cleansing, and puri- 



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fying, and renewing, and saving — Blessed be the 
Lord ! In all this, " I will remember the Land" 
— "The Land is mine," comes before the Literalist, 
as a proclamation of the great King, and on read- 
ing further, there is clear discovery of Originality 
in the proprietorship of the land, and of all places 
beneath the heavens, this land is all that the Maker 
calls his own; "for He hath founded it upon the seas; 
and established it upon the floods ;" and in the des- 
truction of Cain's race, the Lord is represented as 
satisfied, so that He will not again smite as He did 
before ; but will set up His Rest upon the earth 
which is His footstool, and make it glorious for His 
own holy Name sake. 

The kingdom of Christ is set up on this land — 
and the place of His throne, He calls His holy 
mountain. It is not to be supposed that Jerusa- 
lem is any new election of the Lord God. There 
is abundant proof in the holy scriptures, that the 
holy land is Eden: and I will offer this directly, 
that in regard to the punishment of our first parents, 
and the punishment of Israel, there is very little 
difference. "Driven out," and "sent out," mean 
about the same ; and as to the Cherubims, and the 
flaming Sword, that the Lord God placed at the 
East of the garden of Eden, to keep the way of the 
tree of life, I just believe it, and that the darkened 
eyes of fleshly mortals, can see very little of what 
God does. Elisha's servant beheld the Syrian 






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host that compassed the city ; and he cried unto 
the man of God, Alas ! my master ! how shall we 
do ? Elisha replied, fear them not : more are they 
that be with us; and Elisha prayed for his terrified 
servant. " Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that 
he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of 
the young man, and he saw ; and behold the moun- 
tain was full of horses and chariots of fire round 
about Elisha." 

Man forgetteth the Lord his Maker that stretched 
forth the heaven, and laid the foundations of the 
earth; and that He can tell man what is his thought. 
What can man see but his own face in a glass, 
that is, the man that rests in a form of godliness, 
without the power. Elisha was not such a minister. 

Respecting the tree of life, I believe it was 
revealed to Ezekiel, and exhibited to John : to the 
first spoken of, as a promised blessing to spring 
from the power of the healing waters; and the 
recipients of both, and all these benefits, are men- 
tioned in the thirteenth verse, to wit, the twelve 
tribes of the children of Israel ; and, " Joseph shall 
have two portions." The two last verses are very 
delightful, and the subject is both new and old. 
The children of Israel in all their divisions of the 
holy land, must exercise and will exercise that love 
which is the fulfilling of the law : they are to receive 
strangers that desire to sojourn among them, as 
brethren. "Be pitiful, be courteous, and the God 



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of love and peace shall be with you." There is no 
mistake on this point. Paul's assertion will be 
fully established. "In Christ Jesus neither circum- 
cision availeth anything nor uncircumcision, but a 
new creature. I do not speak in opposition to the 
seal of the Covenant of God with Abraham ; and 
as in Isaac the heavenly Seed was called, I sacredly 
view the Blessed, immaculate Son of God, as Head 
of the circumcision, and their minister, for the truth 
of God, to confirm the promises made unto the 
fathers; and one of these sacred promises is 
recorded as follows: 

" And the Lord thy God, will circumcise thy heart, 
And the heart of thy seed, 
To love the Lord thy God, 
With all thy heart, and with all thy soul, 
That thou may est live." See Deut. xxx. 6. 

Glorious Gospel of the Grace that shall come on 
the elect, in the Day of Christ ! 

The mercy of God, the God of Israel, had before 
been marvellously displayed, in the restoration of 
the two tables of the written Covenant, (the Royal 
Law,) and in the preservation of the priesthood, to 
minister the same, as a dispensation of works (not 
of merit), but of obedience unto the righteousness 
of their God, who is, said Moses, 
"God of gods, and Lord of lords, 

A great God — a Mighty — and a terrible ! 

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He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless 
and widow ; and loveth the stranger in giving him 
food and raiment." 

And, Moses, now issues a positive command, 
that Israel must attend to their hearts, and be no 
more stiffnecked; and he calls their attention to 
this spiritual circumcision, on account of their holy- 
vocation, reminding them of the delight which the 
Lord had in their fathers, on whose memory their 
blessing would rest — "Beloved for the father's 
sakes." 

" Love ye the Stranger," said Moses — 
For ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 

"Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, 

"Him shalt thou serve ; and to Him shalt thou 
cleave ; and swear (confess) by His Name." 

When the law is written in fleshly tables of 
hearts made new by the Redeemer of Israel, they 
will delight in doing good to the stranger. How 
entirely the reverse of all that they now see in pro- 
fessing Christians. Now by stranger, is meant a 
foreigner, and one unknown. If a person's cha- 
racter is made familiar by letters, and recommenda- 
tions of your acquaintance, the bearer is not a 
stranger, like Israel in the land of Egypt; for 
Joseph had not boasted to Pharaoh, that his father 
was a Prince with God, &c. 

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giveth food and raiment, are in reality, what the 
Gibeonites professed to be, and what every con- 
trite sinner is, before the Lord. It is mockery to 
say to a lonely stranger, mournful and weary, 
depart in peace. The stranger should turn and 
ask, "what hast thou to do with peace !" O ! if pro- 
fessing Christians would study the sublime subject 
of the great Reformation in Ages to come, instead of 
speculating upon it; if they would try to act a 
little as Jesus did, in showing kindness to the liv- 
ing (while they cannot raise the dead), how readily 
would the Spirit of love sanctify their sympathy 
with the thoughts of God for His poor. It is Him- 
self that is fed at your table — it is the King you 
visit in prison. It is the Lord of Glory you shelter 
beneath your roof — and He reminds you of the 
deeds, in the day of final separation between the 
righteous and the wicked, when, peradventure, a 
congregation of Indians may stand before the 
Judge, and He own them as His brethren ! ! ! The 
Stranger is Joseph in the land of Egypt. The 
Strangers are Joseph's brethren. Pharaoh was 
kind to Joseph's brethren for Joseph's sake ; but 
Israel are directed to love the stranger because 
they were strangers in a heathen land, and as 
Pharaoh said to Joseph, "The land of Egypt is 
before thee : in the best of the land make thy father 
and thy brethren to dwell : in the land of Goshen 
let them dwell ; and if thou knowest any men of 



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activity among them, then make them rulers over 
my cattle." Israel in her happy possession of 
Canaan, must exhibit an honourable requital, com- 
memorative of the goodness of the Lord to them, 
in giving their elder brother favour in the sight of 
a Gentile King, who was kind to them for that 
brother's sake. 

" And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe 
the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his 
inheritance, saith the Lord God." 

In all this, there is no intimation of any farther 
distinction for the Gentiles, than a comfortable set- 
tlement in a happy land, and among the people 
whom the Lord hath blessed. During the reign 
of the great Joshua, Satan is confined in the bot- 
tomless pit; and Righteousness is in authority, so 
all people rejoice. In the absence of that wily 
foe, his spiritual kingdom is entirely dormant: it 
licks the dust. Envy is wholly perished out of the 
elect in the day of Christ ; for He puts within them, 
a sound heart, which is the life of the flesh ; and if 
they see that the strangers in Goshen are growing 
into a great multitude, and that they flourish ex- 
ceedingly, it excites no displeasure in their peaceful 
bosoms. Their Sabbath is uninterrupted ; for Christ 
is Lord of the day. The Strangers are restrained 
from evil, by the predominancy of righteousness in 
the earth; and they are employed by the great 
Solomon to build the walls of Zion, to lay her 



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foundations with sapphires, and their kings may- 
assist to beautify the house of the Lord. It is 
written, that strangers shall feed their flocks, plough 
their land, and dress their vines; but Israel shall be 
named Ministers of the Lord. 

The strangers will unite with the elect, to observe 
the sacred ordinances of religion in the kingdom of 
God. On every Sabbath, and at every new moon, 
" all flesh shall come to worship before me, saith 
the Lord." "And it shall come to pass, that 
every one that is left of all the nations which came 
against Jerusalem, shall even go up from year to 
year, to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and 
to keep the feast of tabernacles." 

In the verse following, I read a warning that 
concerns the last falling away, by the Devil's fatal 
delusion, after he is released from his prison the 
bottomless pit. 

" And it shall be, that whoso will not come up 
of all the families of the earth, unto Jerusalem, to 
worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon 
them there shall be no rain." 

I believe the rain means every blessing, spiritual 
and literal. 

"And if the family of Egypt go not up, and 
come not, that have no rain; there shall be the 
plague, wherewith the Lord shall smite the Gen- 
tiles that come not up to keep the feast of taber- 
nacles." This is sin, the sin of Egypt, and the sin 



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of all nations, that refuse to attend the annual feast 
of the Great King. 

I believe then, is Satan's last opportunity ; and 
Israel is free — they are all holiness to the Lord, 
and the Canaanite shall no more come into the 
house of the Lord of hosts. Fired with rage at 
such rejection they muster their host for battle, and 
come up on the breadth of the earth, compass the 
camp of the saints about, and the beloved city, and 
fire comes down out of heaven from God, and 
destroys them. 

The Adamic reign (a 1000) is complete. The 
house of Jacob is established in the Lord. They 
have been obedient children of the King. 

Their Names are sanctified in the gates of the 
New City, as the Names of the twelve Apostles of 
the Lamb, are glorified in her foundations. 

Question. Is a city complete until the Gates are 
set up ? After the Apostolic dispensation, by reign 
of the Spirit in them, there is a season of waiting 
for her that halteth (Judah), and then a start is 
taken for immortality; and the Lord will make up 
all His jewels at once. Indeed I think that the 
very least among all the subjects of that Glorious 
Kingdom of Messiah, will far exceed the saints of 
the Gospel age ; and no marvel, for their Joy in the 
Holy Ghost, is fully complete; and union is Strength 
by the hands of their Mighty One. 

" Happy art thou, O Israel ; 
Who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, 



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The Shield of thy help, 
And who is, The Sword of thy Excellency ! 
Thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; 
And thou shalt tread upon their high places." 

! King of Glory — how amiable are thy taber- 
nacles, the glorified bodies of the saints! How- 
reviving the melody of their voice in everlasting 
Song, 

"The Lord is the true God;" 

The Lord is King, and Priest over the house of 
God forever. Glory, and honour, thanksgiving 
and praise, might, majesty, and Dominion ascribed 
to the Lamb. To the Lamb. To the Lamb. 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, forever, and 
ever, Amen ! 



The subject (Redemption) is inexhaustible. Could 
Gabriel dip a pen in the crystal river, he might draw 
out a partial line of the Counsels of His Maker, and 
astonish his innocent companions that desire to look 
into these things, but his effort could but reach to 
the sacred threshold of Redeeming Love, of which 
the Mercy that is from everlasting to everlasting, 
and Grace that is eternal, are seated deep in God, 
and what could Gabriel write, but praise, praise, 
praise to the Lamb? 

Poor mortals, now upon earth, what can we do ? 
Encompassed with darkness — groaning with pains, 
and cares, and fears, what can we know of the 



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sublimity of that age, and those Ages of Light, and 
Joy, and Rest, that remain for the people of God? 
We have come to the time of perplexity, and cer- 
tainly, perplexity now has a reign. We look all 
about the spiritual horizon, and it is dark. We try 
to pray that some light may spring forth; but alas! 
the dark clouds increase. "To whom shall we 
speak, and give warning?" To Samson asleep on 
Delilah's lap ? Who can blow a trumpet at this 
time? Not one ! Who can set up a Sign of fire ? 
Not one! Do men answer thus? Then the Lord 
sleeps also ; and the Strong Delusion must be very 
near; and it is decreed to be sent upon all that 
reject the truth; yea, "that they all may be damned, 
who receive not the truth in the love of it." 
When that decree is executed, "Remove the 
Diadem," A wicked, profane prince shall give 
laws to the whole world; and no corner of the 
globe shall escape. In vain do men say, that 
Anti-Christ is come, and Anti-Christ has reigned, 
or is reigning. The people of Daniel are con- 
cerned in this Wo ; and that people look for a tem- 
poral Prince. At present they are not in possession 
of the gates of Zion, at least, so far as I can know 
at this time. Perhaps while I write in New York, 
the Turk may be leaving Moriah, and the Jews 
may have their mountain. Whenever this event 
transpires, it needs not the wisdom of Solomon to 
discover a great revolution; and the scenes of that 



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Day are exhibited in the pages of holy prophecy, 
so clear, that persons awake, and in their senses, 
may know them ; for " surely the Lord God will 
do nothing but He revealeth His secret unto His 
servants, the prophets." And Amos said, " The 
Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy ?" 
And Peter wrote truth. "No prophecy of the 
scripture is of any private interpretation." Jere- 
miah assured the Jews, that he would keep nothing 
back from them that the Lord spake concerning 
them; and Paul assured the elders of the church at 
Ephesus, that he had kept nothing back, that was 
profitable for them, but had showed them, and 
taught them publicly, and from house to house, 
testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, 
repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord 
Jesus Christ. 

Now, it is a sorrowful state to be in, to know 
nothing of the Sovereign, and righteous will of 
God, with the holy Scriptures, and the Glorious 
Gospels, and the inspired Letters Apostolic, and 
the Book of the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ, in 
our possession, with time to read, mark, learn, and 
truly digest, the results upon, "Thus saith the 
Lord," " Thus saith the God of Israel," and 
"Jesus spake" and "I Paul wrote," and his bre- 
thren also, Peter, James, John and Jude, likewise 
the Revelation of the Royal Jew, the immortal 
King of Glory ! How is it ? Our Blessed Saviour 



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said to the Jews : " Why do ye not understand my 
speech ? even because ye cannot hear my word." 
Now, the word of Jesus was in the holy Torah, 
and in the prophets, not in the Talmud. And the 
word of Christ is still in the Law and in the testi- 
mony, and not in Commentaries, and traditions of 
uninspired men. The fathers — where are they? 
" Christ is in heaven." — He alone, can help any 
one. The fathers lie in dust, until they hear His 
voice. All creation is dependant on Him; and 
forever Blessed be His holy Name, He is able to 
save unto the uttermost all that come unto God by 
Him. The Saviour of Israel is no more a change- 
able, than a finite being, He is the same yesterday, 
and to-day, and forever. All that worship Him 
shall have rain ; and those that refuse and rebel, 
shall perish — it is the result of a bad will : " ye 
will not come unto me that ye might have life." 
It is a blessed truth, that during all the times of 
Satan's temptations, the Blessed Lord is never left 
destitute of witnesses to His goodness and mercy, 
and greatness of love to the lost, the helpless, and 
sinful children of men ; and that even the time of 
Satan's great wrath, when his temptation is central 
in the Crown of pride, the personal Anti-Christ, 
the Lord God has two prophets that shall receive 
power from Him, as the Beast and false prophet 
receive power from Satan ; and it is an admirable 
truth, that during the time of their testimony, the 



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wrath of the enemy prevails not against them. It 
is my belief at present, that Moses and Elijah are 
the Lord's two witnesses. They were present at 
His transfiguration, and conferred with Him on the 
subject of His Great Sacrifice. The Lord God of 
Elijah can easily identify the Tishbite, in the pre- 
sence of the Jews. The God of Israel can show 
Moses, with the vail upon his face, to the children 
of Jacob. With God all things are possible. I do 
not say, I know this thing. I only judge by the 
scene on Mount Tabor, and the extraordinary 
missions of those two men in ancient days, and the 
manner of their dismissal from service upon the 
elect earth, for the God of the elect people, unto 
that same people. With reverence I glance on the 
scene that opened at Mount Nebo, and exclaim, 
must it be so ? Paul testifies with a solemn as- 
severation, that Moses was faithful in all his house, 
"as a servant;" and yet Moses never entered the 
promised land. But, Moses came to Christ on 
Mount Tabor; and if the Lord please, Moses will 
finish his testimony of rebuke, and warning, and 
exhortation, with miracles of judgment, and then 
die for neither God nor man to entomb, but rise to 
give the signal that Christ's dead body must 
awake, and go up to meet the Lord half way, on 
His return from the far journey. 

Elijah's service closed very suddenly, there 
seemed to be no winding up, but rather a breaking 






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off; for he did not fulfil all the commissions he re- 
ceived on Mount Horeb. Secret things belong to 
God, but things revealed belong to God's children. 
The Blessed Book gives account that Elijah was 
taken up into heaven by a whirlwind ; and yet the 
sinful kingdom was not destroyed at that time; 
but Elisha (My God saveth) the son of Shaphat, 
(that judges) of Abel Meholah (sorrow of weak- 
ness) received the mantle of his ascending master, 
and had a double portion of the Spirit upon him. 

No cause is assigned for Elijah's departure, only 
"that it came to pass that the Lord would take up 
Elijah, by a whirlwind into heaven." 

But the declaration of his return to the children 
of Israel, before the Great and dreadful Day of the 
Lord, is open for us to read, and it is positive, 

Amen. 

* * -* -* -* * 

At this critical period, while creation groans be- 
neath the load of man's transgressions, especially 
against the Gospel of Christ, man is groaning to 
be rich in silver and gold. This evil (the love of 
money,) certainly marks its votary a tare, in the 
pure sight of Him who upon earth had not where 
to lay his head, who wrought at the work of a 
carpenter, until He arrived at lawful age to be a 
public teacher of the Law, and then went forth to 
do His Father's work, without purse, scrip, sword, 
or change of apparel. In plain, and pointed terms 

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as language could present, Jesus Christ declared 
that a rich man could hardly enter the kingdom of 
heaven. " I am the door of the sheep/' — said the 
lowly Shepherd of Israel. Can man enter by that 
door with golden weights upon his breast, and 
silver shackles about his feet? — "hardly." — Can 
the hands that reach after gain, wield the sword of 
the Spirit, in defence of the Gospel ? Can the 
head that is meditating plans to keep up with this 
world, put on the helmet of Salvation? Can it 
think with God, and think of mammon too ? Did 
Paul apprehend his beloved son in the faith, who 
was a candidate for the holy and responsible office 
of Bishop, in danger, when he wrote his epistle 
from Laodicea? 

" Godliness, with contentment is great gain." 
" For we brought nothing into this world, 
And it is certain we can carry nothing out, 
And having food and raiment let us be therewith 
content." 

"But, they that will be rich, fall into temptation, 
and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful 
lusts, (flesh — eye — pride of life,) which drown men 
in destruction and perdition." 

Speculations are certainly criminal. « Six days 
shalt thou work," — not speculate seven; for, if a 
man is engaged in speculation, it is never out of 
his head ; but a man who labours, working with 
his hands, when he has performed as a hireling his 



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day, can rest at night, and think upon what he reads 
on the day appointed, &c. — Alas ! — the Sabbath ! — 
No — the Day is marred ! To Paul again. 

For, the love of money is the root of all evil, 
which, while some coveted after, 

" THEY HAVE ERRED FROM THE FAITH !" 

(Oh! this is Judas' sin! full grown apostacy!) 
"And pierced themselves through with many 
sorrows." Strong language ! 

" But thou, ! man of God, flee these things : 
And follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, 
love, patience, meekness. 

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal 
life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast pro- 
fessed a good profession before many witnesses. 

I give thee charge in the sight of God who quick- 
eneth all things, and before Christ Jesus who, 
before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession ; 

That thou keep this commandment without spot, 
unrebukable, until the appearing of Jesus Christ, 

Which in his times (of restitution) He shall show, 
(the sign of the Son of Man,) 

Who is the Blessed and the only Potentate, 
(Governor) The King of kings, and the Lord of 
lords. 

Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the 
light (God-Head) which no man can approach unto, 
whom no man hath seen, or can see, 

To whom be honour and power everlasting, 



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Amen. Charge them that are rich in this world, that 
they be not high minded, nor trust in uncertain 
riches, but in the living God, (who* giveth us richly 
all things to enjoy :) That they do good, that they 
be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing 
to communicate. Laying up in store a good foun- 
dation, (faith, and works of faith, and labours of 
love) against the time to come, that they may lay 
hold on eternal Life. 

Timothy, keep that which is committed unto 
thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and 
oppositions of science, falsely so called : 

Which, some professing, have erred concerning 
the faith." 

This is not the only charge that Paul adminis- 
tered to Timothy, his " dearly beloved son in the 
faith ; but this is sufficient to condemn the present 
generation of Christians, (so called) and could 
Paul speak to us now, what might we expect to 
hear ? " Be not deceived. God is not mocked. 
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." 

It is curious to note the subtle enemy in his 
work upon a professor of religion, that loves 
money. Satan instructs him to conceal his idol 
from the knowledge of the poor, and Satan man- 
ages to conceal from the professor, that money is 
an idol with him. An arch heretic in his doctrine 

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of wisdom, prudence, discrimination, and cau- 
tiousness : a wily, twisting, crooked, malicious foe, 
in all his temptations to cupidity and love of the 
world. The Lord commands secret alms, as well 
as secret prayers. The Devil instructs about ex- 
ample, and " provoking to love and good works." 
He makes men Pharisees : the doctrine of Christ 
converts men to little children. 

Of one thing we may be certain : that the day is 
very near, that will prove us all. We shall find 
out the real worth of our professions, and our 
works ; and this is true, whether we die before the 
literal reign of Anti-Christ, or live on earth, when 
he is raised up out of the bottomless pit. It is not a 
small affair to profess godliness. It is not a light 
concern to attend upon ordinances. If we weigh 
the testimony of Paul on the sacrament of the Sup- 
per of the Lord, we may surely discover that each 
time of our engagement in its celebration, bears on 
the scales of Judgment to the right hand, or to the 
left of the King of Glory, because, if we discern not 
the Lord's body in this institution of His love, we 
cannot discern Him at all ; for he has commanded 
that it shall be done in remembrance of His death; 
and how can we be delivered from sin, which hath 
no wages to give us but death, except by His 
Atonement? And has He not sealed it upon 
the ordinance we call the Lord's supper ! Are we 
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Christ ? I ask, who is Christ, but the King of the 
Jews ? 

The Apostle of the Gentiles, assured the Co- 
rinthians, that every time they did eat of that bread, 
and drink of that cup, they shew forth the Lord's 
death till He comes. 

And the Apostle adds this terrible sentence. 

" Wherefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, and 
drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be 
guilty of the body, and blood of the Lord." Awful ! 
It were good for such if they never had been 
born. 

Read Paul. " But let a man examine himself, 
and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that 
cup." 

" For he that eateth, and drinketh unworthily, 
eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, 
Not discerning the Lord's body. 

" For this cause many are sickly and weak among 
you, and many sleep." 

Not discerning the Lord's body ! 

This is the result of having the form, but denying 
the power. Except we are dead with Christ, we 
cannot live with Him ; and we are not dead with 
Christ, except by faith in His death, we are dead 
to this Age, and count all loss, until He come, 
and raise His own dead body to life. The whole 
house of Israel, above or beneath the ground ! 

Over the Cross of the Paschal Lamb, was writ- 



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ten in Hebrew, for the Hebrews : In Greek, for 
the Greeks ; in Latin, for the Latins : 
Jesus of Nazareth: The King of the Jews. 
This testimony is open testimony for the whole 
world, and it never can be altered, or changed in its 
position. It faces Jerusalem " which is the city of 
the Great King ; and Jerusalem is unmoveable, and 
abideth forever." 

But, let us inquire earnestly, and prayerfully, 
what is the sum of discernment, (i. e. recognition 
and recollection of the Lord's body.) 

I point to the fifty-third chapter of the Book of 
the visions of Isaiah, (Salvation of the Lord.) 
" He is despised and rejected of men. 
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. 
And* we hid as it were our faces from Him. 
He was despised, and we esteemed him not. 
Surely He hath borne our griefs 
And carried our sorrows : 
Yet, we did esteem him stricken, 
Smitten of God, and afflicted (i. e. accursed of 

God,) 
But He was wounded for our transgressions, 
He was bruised for our iniquities : 
The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, 
And with His stripes ice are healed. 
All we like sheep have gone astray, 

* "And they all forsook Him and fled." 



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And the Lord hath laid upon Him 

The iniquity of us all. — Us All." 
Now, for a fair starting point. Where shall we 
take it ? Is not the open declaration, that immedi- 
ately succeeds the Title of this Gospel Book, safe, 
and sufficient ? How shall we sound the same ? 

The Book of the prophet Isaiah. Right. 
The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he 
saw concerning — 

(Greeks, and Latins, and English, &c. ? Nay,) 
Judah and Jerusalem." 

" Hear, Heavens, and give ear, earth : for 
the Lord hath spoken: I have nourished and 
brought up children, and they have rebelled 
against me. 

The ox knoweth his owner, 

And the ass her master's crib, 

But Israel doth not know, 

My people doth not consider. 

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity. 

A seed of evil doers, children that are cor- 
rupters. 

They have forsaken the Lord, 

They have provoked the Holy One of Israel, 

They are gone away backward." 
Question. Will the Christian church (so called) 
claim this address from the Lord, as revelation of 
her doings, and her state ? Rome will not, who is 
the mother of us all, on this side of the rivers of 









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Ethiopia ; for she is infallible : she cannot err ; she 
is clear of sin, for she pardons herself every day, 
and offers up the just Lord as sacrifice every day ; 
and she claims that the interpretation of the scrip- 
tures belongs exclusively to her, as having posses- 
sion of the keys of the kingdom of heaven, with 
power to bind, and power to loose, power to sanc- 
tify, and power to glorify. In her bosom is repose 
for the dead, and obedience to her, is the hope of 
the living ; and all this comes to her from the Jew 
servant, " Simon Peter a servant of Jesus Christ." 
* s # * $ *- * 

Is there a dissenting congregation of Christians* 
that will accept of this portion ? 

The Mormonites will not, for Joe Smith (a son 
of the Sovereign Westt) has inducted that people 
into the celestial kingdom, which they invited me 
to join, (in 1833, at Independence, Mo.) stating 
that I was "about pure enough;" and I (most 
ungraciously) replied, "fiddlestick." N. B. In 
1830, the book of Mormon was handed to me, as 
a wonderful thing in these last days, when preach- 
ing seems to be like the white of an egg; and I, 
a preacher needed the book of Mormon to teach 
me a New Gospel, etc., and so forth. I recollect 
some very simple thoughts passed through my 

* I will not ask the Protestant Church of England. She is a 
friend to the Jews, I hope. 

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mind, such as, perhaps "the thing is true" — how 
did I know to the contrary — and the times were 
getting worse and worse ; and this country overrun 
with heresies, and even Atheism had a bold face to 
show in New York, called Fanny Wright, &c, and 
I must be careful not to reject the Sent, for fear the 
true Master had sent him, &c. ; and I felt worried. 
I was sick, and a cripple. I concluded to spread 
the Book before the Lord, and beg that He would 
preserve me from the evil either way, viz. of 
rejecting His truth, or receiving Satan's errors. I 
kneeled down, (lame, and weak as I was,) and 
referred the strange concern to that All-seeing eye, 
and to the merciful Name, which is my all upon 
earth, or in heaven. 

"Go not after them," instantly came over all 
other thoughts, and rested on my mind ; and I have 
no boast to make of myself, but of Divine Good- 
ness I may boast, inasmuch, that the net spread 
for my feet, was in sight of the Holy Dove, whose 
overshado wings upon my helpless soul are ordained 
of Him, who is the Shepherd of Israel, that doth 

neither slumber nor sleep I ask 

prayers for the poor Indians that their ears may be 
deaf to all the calls of this false Christ, even should 
he have power (from Satan) to speak their lan- 
guage ; and this boon, I ask of believers in the res- 
toration of Israel to their covenant land — pray for 
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To whom shall I turn now ? (leaving Rome and 
Nauvoo, desiring to return no more) to whom shall 
I turn, of all the numerous sects called churches of 
Christ, and ask, dost thou own the first chapter of 
Isaiah ? I assert that the proprietors of the first 
chapter, utter their voice in the fifty-third. In the 
first chapter, a people and a nation are addressed 
unto the end of the twentieth verse ; and from 
thence to the twenty-eighth a city is addressed; and 
from that to the close, transgressors are judged, and 
their end is unquenchable fire ! 

The large flock that feed in Mr. Miller's chrono- 
logical field, are professedly ready to ascend up, to 
meet the Lord in the air ; and they cannot confess 
themselves the people addressed as children that 
are corruptors. The allegations against Judah, 
Israel, and Jerusalem, with all the consequent suf- 
ferings, and judgments that are foretold, according 
to the Word of the Lord, are all of them bounti- 
fully dispensed to the present (as well as past) 
unbelieving congregations of nominal Jews; but 
the promises of pardon, restoration and blessing, 
are transferred to the descendants of Cornelius, and 
"Judah is thrown over the Bay." So, of course, 
the visible, separate nation, styled the circumcision, 
or Jews, are allowed to be the legal inheritors of 
the first chapter of the visions of Isaiah, so far as 
Christians who instantly look for the last Judgment 
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Finally, I know of no sect of Christians who will 
confess, that the 12 — 15 verses of the first chapter 
of Isaiah are spoken to them, by the Lord of hosts. 

§§§P* "When ye come to appear before me, 
who hath required this at your hand, to tread my 
courts?" 

"Bring no more vain oblations: incense is an 
abomination unto me : the new moons and Sab- 
baths, the calling of assemblies 1 cannot away with: 
it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new 
moons, and your appointed feasts, my soul hateth : 
they are a trouble unto me : I am weary to bear 
them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I 
will hide mine eyes from you ; yea, when ye make 
many prayers I will not hear." 

The truth, I suppose is this, that no doubt is 
entertained concerning the whole chapter, and that 
the introduction is literal. I then propose to carry 
it on through the whole Book, and consider that 
the prophet Isaiah, faithfully adhered to truth in 
declaring all that he saw, and all that he received 
by the Holy Ghost, not altering, varying, diminish- 
ing, or enlarging any burden that was presented 
for him to record. Babylon (see 13th c.) is Baby- 
lon — Damascus, Egypt, Tyre, and Sidon, &c, the 
same ; and, as Jerusalem, Zion, Judah, and Israel, 
are, at this day, more distinct and literal objects, 
than all the rest, so far as our immediate know- 
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acknowledge, that for the people brought up out of 
Egypt, and led in the wilderness forty years, pro- 
phecy is given ; and of course for them must be 
accomplished ? But, the fifty -third chapter of 
Isaiah, says the Christian, is not the exclusive pri- 
vilege of Judah and Jerusalem; for Christ is "the 
Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the 
world; and the apostle declares, that Jesus was 
made a little lower than the angels for the suffer- 
ings of death, that by the grace of God, He should 
taste death for every man." All true : every word ; 
and how gladly I embrace it, he alone doth know, 
who searcheth the heart. 

" Let me look on Golgotha, 
Weep and love my life away, 
While my blessed Lord I see, 
Weep, and bleed, and die for me." 
Yes — I read the eleventh verse of the chapter, as 
the concern of Salvation, the tidings whereof shall 
sound from pole to pole ; for the sorrow of Jesus' 
soul was unto death, that He might destroy Him 
that has the power of death, which is the devil ; 
and the expressions " He shall see of the travail of 
His soul, and shall be satisfied," are devoted to 
every particular in Redemption, and reach to the 
final consummation of all judgment, and its final 
issue upon the last enemy, which is, spiritually, a 
separation of God from God ; for in Him is every 
breath, every life. How fearful are the words 

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" everlasting destruction, from the presence of the 
Lord, &c." I believe in the testimony of Paul. 
See Rom. 2d chapter; but I do not think the apostle 
intended that indignation and wrath, tribulation 
and anguish, &c, referred to the second death, but 
to the severe and terrible punishment prepared in 
the wine cup of fury, represented in Jeremiah, 
twenty-fifth chapter; and the second death is 
reserved for the King of Sheshach, who drinks 
last ; and who is the king of Sheshach (bag of 
flax) ? It is written that in the day when Zion 
shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts 
with righteousness, that destruction shall come 
upon transgressors, then "the strong shall be as tow 
(refuse of flax), and the maker of it as a spark, and 
they both (the Beast and the Devil) shall burn 
together, and none shall quench them." The same 
lake of fire is prepared for Satan, as for his mes- 
sengers to the elect ; but the latter are cast therein 
at the Advent of Christ to judge the living, and the 
former (/. e. the devil) is appointed to the same 
destruction, after the storm of fire destroys his last 
Gog and Magog (the roof or covering of hell), and 
before the final judgment — the judgment of the 
dead, of death, and the grave. 

I have digressed from the subject of the Sacra- 
ment ; but I must return to it. There is more to be 
said; and let it not be a scandal to the believer in 
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" the weaker vessel," calls his special attention to 
this matter. I beg to propose questions upon it, for 
the few " scarcely saved" from the heresies of the 
fourth, fifth, and six centuries of the Christian Era. 

1. Can you tell me the very object, the original 
object of our Blessed Saviour, in His conclusion of 
the feast of the passover, by taking a Cake of un- 
leavened Bread (the bread of seven days) and pro- 
nouncing His blessing upon that one Cake, which 
He took in His hand; and then dividing the Cake in 
twelve pieces; and then handing to each of His 
first apostles, a piece, commanding, "Take — Eat 
— saying, this is my body?" See Matthew xxvi. 
26; Mark xiv. 22. 

I am not now asking about the actual purport of 
the Sign, but the object of its presentation in that 
night of moral darkness in Judas Iscariot, the chief 
priests, the elders, scribes and Pharisees, and Cap- 
tains of the temple ; and immediately after the pro- 
phecy that represented an Apostle of Messiah, 
" the son of perdition." 

Plainly I ask, what is the object ? As it was 
then (while Jesus was among them as "He that 
serveth") so it is now (in the sight of faith), for 
Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, to-day, and 
forever : and so it remains, till He comes again, to 
serve them ; for it is written, " He shall feed His 
flock like a shepherd : He shall gather the lambs 
with His Arm, and carry them in His bosom ; and 



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shall gently lead those that are with young/' N. B. 
They are assembled with His Power, and are car- 
ried by His power, in His love. Psalms 60. 7 ; 
68. 1,5,6; 69, 35; 72. 1—4; 77. 13; 79. 11; 8a. 
1 & 19; 81. 10; 85. 12, 13; 87. 5, 6; 94. 14, 15; 
95. 7; 100. 3; 122. 2; 132. 15. 

Whatever is the original object of this ceremony, 
performed by the Saviour of Israel in the night of 
His sorrow, while, as yet, the feast of the passover 
appears not to be finished (see "As they were eat- 
ing), the Sign is too evident, to be misapprehended, 
except intentionally ; for it is displayed like an un- 
furled banner to open view. A Passover Cake — 
distributed to twelve Jews, by Christ, the Beloved 
Son of the living God; and He Blessed the Bread; 
and in distributing it, said Take — Eat — This is my 
body. Here is a Covenant. It is to be fulfilled in 
the Kingdom of God. Unleavened Bread is repre- 
sentative of incorruptible substance. Christ pre- 
sented His body to the twelve apostles, as they 
were eating of the lamb of the passover, without 
the Blood, signifying that to the nation they repre- 
sented pertained the glory that shall endure forever, 
even His own person. Himself, to return and feed 
them with all manner of pleasant fruits, new and 
old. This Bread represents a Kingdom that is not 
of this world (this Age), even as the unleavened 
Bread is not of the Gentile Age. The passover 
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Pharaoh, and the execution of judgment on all the 
gods of Egypt; and that day was the beginning 
of a new year (a new time) for all the congregation 
of the Lord, and to be observed for a memorial 
throughout their generations, that God was their 
Deliverer and their King. 

The reign of Nebuchadnezzar tells a sorrowful 
tale, A kingdom is set up on the fall of the elect ; 
and its gods are gold, and silver, and brass, and 
iron ; the latter is mixed with miry clay ; and isi the 
worst of all (God be thanked it is not all iron) for 
it honours not Daniel or Mordecai, it favours not 
Ezra, Nehemiah or Esther ; but seeks to establish 
the vision of judgment against the Lord's host, and 
devours the childrens' Bread. 

The Blessed One rejected the Gentile Age, and 
went to heaven, where He is exalted with the right 
hand of God, to give repentance to Israel, and re- 
mission of their sins ; and He certainly is their por- 
tion, their living Bread, the incorruptible Word of 
God that abideth forever ; and they are His dead 
body, broken and scattered abroad to the four winds 
of heaven, while the day that was set for a memo- 
rial that their first Age (though interrupted) should 
be established, is still celebrated in the first month 
of the year unto them, by a people who have the 
original Sign of God's holy Rest, with the Lamp. 
So then, Christ is their living Body literally, because 
He is risen from the dead, and dieth no more ; death 

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hath no more dominion over Him ; and they are 
His dead body spiritually and literally, because of 
unbelief, and judgment upon it. Was David the 
son of Jesse, bone and flesh of Israel, Christ the 
son of David is much more, for He is their immor- 
tal Bread, and this Bread is His flesh, given for the 
life of the Age that shall witness to His everlasting 
Rest. Now the sacrament, which is called the 
Lord's Supper, was instituted to show forth His 
death until He comes : Whatever man intends to 
show by it, this is the Seal upon each time of par- 
taking of that sacred symbolic sacrament — even a 
show of Christ's death, until He comes. 

In the heart of Judah, Jesus of Nazareth is dead. 
On Mount Moriah Judah is dead ; and so is Christ. 
"One God" — very good — but Mahomet coupled 
with that Name which is given to Israel, slays 
Christ; and indeed Christ is slain every where; for 
His death is claimed for continual sacrifice, day by 
day, rejecting His Life, and virtually rejecting also, 
the merits of His death for a national offering by 
Himself the Chief of David's house. To commemo- 
rate the love of Christ in the ordinance called the 
Lord's supper, by which Ave do show forth His 
death until He comes, without faith or discernment 
of His elect body, is not possible. It is no better 
than the salutation of Judas Iscariot; and accord- 
ing to Paul's testimony, it is a sin that tends to 
death, I suppose the very next to. blasphemy against 



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the Holy Ghost. When I pray, I must come to 
God by a living Mediator : by baptism I am buried 
with Christ into His death ; and in taking the Sa- 
crament, I have the privilege to show forth His 
death, or dying to sin, that death may be destroyed 
by His coming again; and I should be guilty of 
sacrilege against the body of the Lord, if I fail to 
recognise the body of His flesh, raised from the 
dead to sit on David's throne, the true Melchise- 
dek forever and ever ; and also that His covenant 
people, the children of Israel have a right to say, 
what no other people under heaven have a right to 
say, "Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh :" 
therefore, I must discern in the Bread (not the out- 
ward Sign — that which I put in my poor mouth 
of clay) that the Lord sanctified (even Himself,) 
Israel's resurrection unto holiness that they may 
Behold their God. If any man or woman have 
any other faith, than the faith of God elects, I 
am sure I do not know how they can be bene- 
fited by taking the Bread of the sacrament; 
for what do they know of the Day they never 
saw; and how can they desire this Bread ever- 
more, who reject the Covenant of Jesus Christ 
— take — eat — this is my body? My fellow mor- 
tals, we must be Jews inwardly, or we cannot 
worthily partake even outwardly. It is not the 
bread that Jesus blessed which savours not of the 
Covenant of eternal life. If only man's blessing 



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be upon our religious things, we shall always be 
tending to poverty ; and our wants will come as an 
armed man ; for it will be more tolerable for Sodom 
and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for 
Gospel ordinance perverters, corrupters, and even 
blasphemers in the sight of God. Waste not the 
childrens' bread upon extravagant self love, should 
be solemnly charged upon our souls now, that con- 
science make no report against us to the Judge of 
quick and dead, for He is the Father of Israel, and 
Ephraim is His first born. How can we avoid the 
conviction, that Christ gave His body to the Jews ? 
You may say, the Apostles were christians. I say 
they were Jews ; and to them He presented His 
incorruptible body ; and it is theirs forever ; and 
He was promised to them before the world began. 
Christ is the Seed of the woman that shall bruise 
the serpent's head ; and He is the Son of David 
according to the Law of God, and the Son of Man 
according to the will of God, being holy, harmless, 
undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher 
than the heavens by the word of the oath, " Thou 
art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedek." 
A second Question. 

When our Blessed Saviour gave the cup to His 
apostles, that pertained to the passover, did He not 
(in giving thanks) sanctify that cup until the pass- 
over should return in which He the minister of the 
circumcision, would participate, with Joy, that the 
dead son is restored to life, and the lost heir found? 



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How can a Jew recognise his nation's birth Day 
of glory (see Isaiah lx. 1.) that shall never fade 
away, without sacred remembrance of the former 
things, " the things of old time," which concern 
the purpose of el elohe Israel in their election to 
be His nation upon earth ? Such most emphati- 
cally are the Jews ; for Christ was a Jew ! And 
there is an outward, i. e. a visible relic of this holy 
election, in every country at this day. Every Jew, 
(I mean the nominal) is a witness to the first Ad- 
vent, as every christian is a witness to the second 
Advent ; but the Hebrew Christian is more. He 
is the representative of his Nation's Peace : of his 
nation's Liberty ; and he is a city set on a hill, that 
cannot be hid. He is the Salt of the earth : the 
light of the world. The Blood of the Lion of Ju- 
dah flows in his veins ; and the Blood of the Lamb 
of God was shed for the remission of his sins. In 
his Gospel vocation, he reads the same Glory as in 
his original election by the Law, " Holiness to the 
Lord ;" and his lips should be opened far the 
Prophet raised up out of the earth, and ascended 
to heaven, saying, that Christ came " not to destroy 
the Law, or the prophets ;" but to fulfil : and that 
the Saviour of Israel is the end of the Law for 
righteousness, and not its destruction. Should not 
the Hebrew in his embrace of the cross remember, 
that it is the cross of Christ, His nation's King? I 
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" manifested in the flesh ; w for, the Holy One came 
in the Holy Child Jesus ; and Glory is given to God, 
and not to woman. 

In the time that now is, which is the time of per- 
plexity — (a branch of the wild gourd that grew 
up in the night of the Dove — (I mean times of the 
Gentiles from Cornelius) who are called upon to 
" Cry aloud, spare not — to lift up the voice like a 
trumpet, and show the people of God their trans- 
gressions, and the house of Jacob their sins ? Are 
they not the characters that walk in the upright- 
ness of Christ, fulfilling outward righteousness, as 
His servants and followers, for His holy Name 
sake ; and say, to all of the wild Olive, " cast ye up, 
cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling 
block out of the way of the holy people ? Like a 
fool I shall now declare that these trumpeters must 
be children of Sarah, and children of Rachel, even 
legitimate and proper sons of Abram (High father) 
and sons of Israel, (a prince of the Strong God) 
and their persons must be like the Pattern — or, 
they cannot stand by Him, as He goeth out, and 
as He cometh in ; nor can they trumpet His fame. 
Sarah and Rachel, have you no children to take 
your part against Athaliah and Jezebel ? Paul 
and Jehoiada, is all your labour for God, to lie in 
dust, beneath the feet of Zion's dispersed ? ! 
come thou strengthening breeze, awake thou gen- 
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that spices may flow out ; and the Beloved will 
gather His myrrh with them ; and still declare, 

" Blessed are they which are persecuted for 
righteousness' sake ; for theirs is the kingdom of 
heaven." 

We read in the holy scriptures, that " out of 
Zion shall go forth the law ; and the word of the 
Lord from Jerusalem." In the sacred Gospel we 
read, that repentance and remission of sins shall be 
preached in His Name (The Word) among all na- 
tions, beginning at Jerusalem." 

The command of God is, "Blow ye the trumpet 
in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain, 
let all the inhabitants of the land* tremble ; for the 
Day of the Lord cometh ; for it is nigh at hand. 
A Day of darkness and of gloominess : A Day of 
clouds, and of thick darkness, as the morning spread 
upon the mountains." 

Was Stephen a trumpeter ? " What house will 
ye build me," saith the Lord? 

Is the present a day of Israel's gladness, that 
trumpets should blow softly, concerning building 
nice dwelling houses, and a grand church on 
Mount Zion ? ! that the uncertain sound might 
instantly cease ; and the two trumpets of silver, 
made at Sinai, and blown in the Holy land by 
Jews that were ready to die for Jesus' sake, now 

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sound the solemn alarm, and while the camps that 
lie on the east and south set forward to face the 
enemy, may the blast be heard even to the West, 
horrid Puseyism ! Poison in vessels of honour, 
that are set in the great, the honourable house ! ! ! 
See Luke v. 36. 

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The second cup at the passover, is the cup of 
Messiah ; and this cup our Divine and holy Saviour, 
presented to His twelve apostles, saying " this cup 
is the New Testament" (Covenant) " in my blood 
which is shed for you," adding these words, " But 
behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me, is with 
me on the table. " And truly, the Son of man 
goeth as it was determined, but wo unto that man 
by whom He is betrayed !" 

Our Blessed Lord said to the woman of Samaria, 
" ye worship ye know not what : we know what 
we worship, for Salvation is of the Jews." How 
dare you, sinners of the Gentiles, or ye sinners 
of the Hebrews, to remove the ancient Landmark 
from holy ground? Are you not afraid of the 
judgment pronounced against those who discern 
not the Lord's body ? Do you not understand the 
apostle, that there is no atonement provided for 
this sin ? You are not to profane the cup of Mes- 
siah with impunity. "Behold Israel after the 
flesh. Are not they which eat of the sacrifices, 
partakers of the altar?" Who ever had a literal 



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altar for Divine Offerings, by ordinance of God, 
except the twelve tribes of the children of Israel ? 
Take the word figuratively, and Christ is the One 
holy Altar, and all beside are ranked with idolatry. 
Is not Christ the King of the Jews? You say, 
they rejected Him. What are you doing who 
deny that He will return, and raise up David's 
fallen house, turn away ungodliness from Jacob, 
and pardon all their sins for His name sake ? Do 
you confess that Jesus is the Christ, who glory in 
your names, as though they were any thing ? Be- 
hold Him in the manger, and worship Him as the 
wise men of the East worshipped Him, the King 
of the Jews; and not hypocritically bow to claim 
the Portion of Jacob for your exclusive possession 

forever Do you provoke Israel 

to jealousy? No indeed. They know that the 
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of 
their fathers, hath bound Himself by Oath of His 
holiness, to the Covenants He made with them ; 
and that this world must witness the truth of God. 
Those who deny the restoration of the twelve 
tribes of the children of the prophets, provoke the 
Lord to Jealousy; and this they will do more and 
more, as the days of their dominion increase, until 
their folly shall be made manifest by the usurpation 
of that man of sin, which is the Son of perdition, 
and that Lawless one, who (at his rise out of the 
bottomless pit) shall do that which his fathers, and 
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his fathers 5 fathers have not done, for he will be 
worshipped, magnifying himself above the God of 
gods; and he shall prosper till the time of Satan's 
wrath be finished. 

If we take a retrospective view of the holy Era 
that was opened in Bethlehem Ephrata almost two 
thousand years ago, how awful is the truth that 
evil has had a complete ascendancy in every cen- 
tury of the time. The massacre of infants from 
two years old and under, in the royal birth city, 
and all the vicinity, the imprisonment and the mur- 
der of John the Baptist, the scourging and cruci- 
fixion of Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory, exhibit 
Satan's triumph by man. Perhaps I shall not be 
forgiven by the lords of creation, if I charge the 
murder of John the Baptist on Herod. Who put 
the holy son of Zachariah and Elizabeth in a dun- 
geon ? Who made a feast? Who swore the oath? 
Who sent Gentile myrmidons to bring the head of 
a prophet that was next in holiness to Jesus Christ? 
It was Herod, a false Messiah, the Tetrarch of 
Galilee, to whom our Lord would not speak, no, 
not one word. 

Is the Dispensation of the Holy Ghost omnipo- 
tent over Evil? The first miracle of healing in 
Jesus' Name is followed by persecution; and what 
is worse than every thing else, lying to the Holy 
Ghost is committed by two of the first assembly of 
the sanctified spiritual infant, the church of the first 
born from the dead. 



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Evil rages. The apostles are put in the common 
prison. The Lord interferes, and angels bring the 
holy prisoners forth. They are flogged, and threat- 
ened, and sent away, and they rejoice, that they 
suffer pain and shame for Christ's sake. They 
continue preaching every day, and all day, and 
Evil rages again. Holy Stephen is stoned to death; 
and falls asleep after all, for it is only the frail body 
that suffered. A very small drop of his Master's 
cup: yes. Stephen fell asleep saying a blessed 
prayer for his mistaken brethren; and with that 
prayer the lowly Lamb has sympathy. 

Now the church is scattered abroad. In Jeru- 
salem, Satan obtained mastery. Solemn mystery ! 
Who would have thought that the cloven tongues 
of fire were soon to be forgotten ? Does Satan fol- 
low the church ? Look at Simon the sorcerer in 
Samaria, offering money to the apostles for power 
of the Holy Ghost. Next behold Saul of Tarsus, a 
learned Pharisee, breathing out threatening and 
slaughter against the disciples of the Lord. He is 
the master workman for Satan, and does not know 
it. It seems that by him the arch-enemy had some 
hope of extermination of good out of the earth. 
What a disappointment! This chieftain of the 
cross opposing company, is apprehended on the 
road to Damascus, whither he is bound to execute 
vengeance upon the Name of Jesus; and he be- 
comes the greatest champion for that very Name, 



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ever known in this lower world. Now Evil is at 
work against him, because he has departed from 
it ; and perils meet him in every form, at every step 
in his warfare, from baptism at Damascus to mar- 
tyrdom at Rome. Satan never let this apostle alone 
when he was upon earth; and after the rapture into 
heaven, it seems that an extra messenger of Satan 
was sent to buffet even the consecrated tenement 
that bore the Gospel treasure, Jesus 5 Name, all 
round the then known world. 

Finally, prisons and death await all the church 
of the apostolic times; and the form of Christianity 
is scarce visible; for darkness overspreads the 
regions that received the first benefits of Atone- 
ment for man's sin. 

A failure of the Omnipotent Paraclete! Be 
astonished ye heavens ! And thou earth be hor- 
ribly afraid ! The blood of apostles, and their fol- 
lowers was not like the blood of the Lamb, an 
Atonement. The blood of martyrs tells another 
tale. It proclaims rejection of the blood that speaks 
peace ; and cries for vengeance. Let this be re- 
membered. Suffering for conscience sake is sacred 
to God. No matter what is the pretence. From 
the death of Abel to Mary Dyer, blood has a voice 
to pierce the skies, and reach the throne of G od. 

Man is overcome from age to age by Satan. It 
is a mystery; and it is a fact. Whatever is given 
to man, Satan turns to his own account; and so he 



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has managed with the doctrines and ordinances of 
the holy Gospel; and has gained perhaps, nearly- 
all the advantage he requires, as preparative to the 
reign of his head son, the Prince of Tyrus; and yet, 
it seems there never was a time like the present for 
spreading religious knowledge. But ! how is it 
done? Joe Smith and the Shakers, the deluded 
followers of Swedenburg, and the Roman Catholics, 
may not send out their sound by a published Journal 
every week; but I really think almost the other 
hundreds of Sects do. Religious News ! ! ! There 
is doubtless a great march of intellect, and money 
and religion are chief topics of the day. A grand 
annual report is issued, and all sorts are doing more 
or less for the good cause ! Alas ! how Satan re- 
joices at the delusions as they increase ! The arch 
foe has no friendship for any of us. He is a uni- 
versal hater ; for to hate is his own as well as to 
lie, and to steal, &c. &c. 

Satan never makes a true report to man of his 
present condition. In his voluntary office of Ac- 
cuser, he may touch somewhere near the line of 
Divine dealings, as in Job's case, but his address 
was to the Lord. " Thou hast blessed the work 
of his hands, and his substance is increased in the 
land." 

In all concerns of man, individual or social, 
temporal or spiritual, Satan meddles to harm, as 
the Lord for good ; and poor man is more atten- 

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tive to him the Serpent, than to God the Spirit, and 
man believes what Satan tells him ; if God speaks, 
" how can this be ? that be far from the Lord." 

Did ever Satan enter his accusations into the 
conscience of a backslider? Never. A faithful 
friend (and that Satan cannot be,) performs that 
service. When a heart that has known the joy of 
pardon from God, draws back from the cross, Satan 
is the cause, and as the holy Spirit is grieved, 
God's work is suspended in one sense, for the 
heart has no comfort ; and at such critical season, 
Satan knows better than to accuse the conscience. 
His temptations are very obscure at first, especially 
if the subject has been distinguished for zeal in 
the cause of truth. Instead of ridiculing his for- 
mer state, he endeavours to set forth, that it was a 
dispensation, and that having finished it, there is at 
present a kind of pause, which is preparative to 
some future work, more glorious far than the little 
child's exercises of the first love. 

How many backsliders have served Satan and 
increased his dark kingdom, by many prayers, and 
much activity, into whose minds he has infused 
intoxicating flatteries, with strange fancies about 
religion. As a Lily among thorns, so is the 
Blessed Saviour among such remarkably strict pro- 
fessors of godliness ; and His Holy Spirit mourns 
over their state, in bosoms that are desolate for 
Christ's sake. Dangerous is a backslider every 



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where. In his family, in the church, in the State, 
in the world! He brings souls into bondage ; and 
perfection is his motto. Such a backslider as this, 
I suppose was the mystic of an early period, who 
explained away the reality of truth, by represent- 
ing holy scripture as deep within deep, and the 
"inner meaning," was all the substance of truth; 
and this amounts to a declaration that the Holy 
Ghost spake one thing, and meant another. Who 
but a backslider would have offered to change the 
voice of God in His word ? 

The man that proposed to set aside the fourth 
commandment of the royal, holy Decalogue, I 
think must have been a backslider : hear his plea : 
" Hitherto (date 360,) Christians have observed two 
days ; and it is not expedient. As the Jews op- 
pose the Gospel, Christians are to keep the first 
day of the week." 

Washing the disciples' feet, lodging strangers, 
politeness and respect to poor saints, and many 
more Christly and apostolic usages, have been, 
and are not, except among a very few christian 
sects, where they savour little of the pure spirit of 
their Divine Original. The gold — has it become 
dim ? The most fine gold, is it changed? Is the 
silver become dross? Is the wine mixed with 
water ? Are the princes (officers in the churches,) 
rebellious ? Are they companions of thieves ? Do 
they love gifts ; and follow after rewards ? What 
follows? 



308 

Affliction is the best medicine, for an individual 
backslider, if he accepts it in the right way : i. e. if 
he is deeply humbled under a sense of its necessity, 
without repining, and is led to confession of its 
goodness, as the need. David and Jonah were re- 
claimed by judgment. Why is it, that churches 
and nations have not repented toward God, while 
afflictions have laid heavily on them ? Let us 
look at home ? Is it not an affliction upon the 
protestant and dissenting churches in the United 
States, that the Bible must be banished from 
Schools in her most populous Atlantic cities ? 

Indeed it is a mark of Divine Displeasure. And 
what evil is like that ? The flaming pile was as 
a downy pillow, or a bower of roses, to the mar- 
tyrs in time of bloody Mary. 

It is a sign of controversy (beyond man) when 
strangers bear sway in the land. It is a token of 
some terrible calamity, some desolating judgment, 
when the desirable things of religion are thrust 
aside from us ? 

How necessary is it, for protestants and dissen- 
ters in this gloomy hour, to study the Blessed and 
holy Books of prophecy, with reference to past 
ages, the present era, and future days, viz. judg- 
ment, retribution and final settlements of God with 
the whole of his creation of angels and men. 

When Samaria, (the Capital City of the land of 
Israel, after Tirzah, which was after Shechem in 



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Mount Ephraim,) had filled up the measure of her 
sins, by shedding innocent blood without her gates, 
the Lord made known his coming Judgment, but 
waited still for her people to repent, and called 
to them by Hezekiah, to return to Him in the 
celebration of their deliverance from the iron fur- 
nace ; and " they refused to return." Then God 
said to them, that the Assyrian should be their 
King and the sword should abide on their cities, 
and consume their branches, and devour them, 

"because of their own counsels." 
The Lord said to His people, " ye have ploughed 
wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity ; ye have 
eaten the fruit of lies ; because thou didst trust in 
thy way,* 

"In the multitude of thy mighty men," 
therefore shallt a tumult arise among thy people, 
and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled as Shalman 
spoiled Beth-asbel in the day of battle : the mother 
was dashed in pieces upon her children. So shall 
Bethel do unto you because of your great wicked- 
ness ; in a morning shall the king of Israel be 
utterly cut off. 

" My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. 
(Query. Did they chain the Law in a dark house ? 
Or did they throw it to the bats, and hug the Calf?) 

* Israel's Banner was a Calf, their Star was Moloch and Chiun 
images ! ! ! 

t Watchman what of the night ? 



310 

" Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will 
reject thee that thou shalt be no priest* to me : 
— " seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, 

I, will also forget thy children." 
" As they were increased, so they sinned against 
me, 

And they set their heart on their iniquity." 
" And there shall be like people like priest, 

And I will punish them for their ways, 

And reward them their doings." 
" I will not punish your daughters when they com- 
mit whoredom, 

Nor your spouses when they commit adultery; 

The people that doth not understand, 

Shall Fall !" 
N. B. HHP" " Romans xv. the first clause (eleven 
words) of fourth verse. 

N. B. New York — Philadelphia — 1800. Washing- 
ton, 1838. — Is gold plenty in the valley? 1844. 
Or is it a garden of herbs ? See 1 Kings, xxi c. 
* Ye drive them from their fathers' lands, 

Ye break of faith the Seal ; 

But can ye from the court of heaven, 

Exclude their last appeal ?" Mrs. L. H. S. May 
her peace be as a river ; and her pen be dipped in 
holy fire, to scorch the oppressors ! 

My fellow mortals, I am bound to the judgment 
seat of Christ ; and so are you. Had I one idea 

* Has America a representative in Jerusalem ? 



311 

that these pages were displeasing to my Saviour, 
I would instantly consign my labour of day and 
night, for the last two months and a half, — to the 
fire, that would consume it, and leave me free. I 
commend these pages to the Lord. 

So, to my Country's weal or wo, no more at 
present. Amen. 

New York, March 31, A. D. 1844, (Solar) 
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NOTES. 

First. It may appear very strange that I publish the names 
of my subscribers, without " Excellency, Honourable, Reverend, 
Esq., Doctor, Mr., or Mrs.," after the pattern of the world. I shall 
represent my motive, simply, in detail. In the night of the fif- 
teenth of the present month, (May, '44) a sudden impression was 
made on my mind, that this Book must not exhibit any such 
thing. At the instant I was not even thinking about it. The 
subject came to me, as a message. I reflected upon it; and con- 
sented, but — thought I, "had I received this a few weeks since, 
I should not have uttered the declaration that the List of my sub- 
scribers would be published at all. This is an evidence that I lack 
moral courage, or else that my heart is imbued with morbid sensi- 
bility, toward my benevolent, and respected friends, and likewise 
for my very unworthy self, dreading the imputation of failing to 
give honour, where honour is due, or making room for allegation 
against me, that I "despise dignities," &c. However, after some 
moments, I felt reconciled to the simplicity portrayed in the order 
"write no flattering titles for that Book;" and Elihu's testimony* 
revived, with power, in my mind; also, my Adorable Master's 
words, "I say unto thee, thou art Peter," and His solemn injunc- 
tion to all His disciples, "Be not ye called Rabbi;" (Matt, xxiii. 8 — 
10.) and I said, I will return to the order of the true flock, that fol- 
lowed their Shepherd and Bishop, as, See Acts xv. 14, and 25. 
Seven days are past, and I am confirmed that the impression is 
right. 1. Excellency. This word is only due to the tenth Name, 
belonging to God. Elion is from Excellency. See But. Con. quo- 
tation from Jerome. 

2. Honourable. A flattering title. 

3. Reverend. This word occurs but once in the Bible. The 
meaning is Fearful. It belongs only to the Great Majesty on high, 
" holy, and fearful, is His Name." 

* See Job xxxii. 21, 22. 



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Bat — I adhere to the pattern set for me, by my subscribers — I 
look over the respected autographs, and discover not a single vestige 
of the grave clothes* — I ask, why do men not sign their titles with 
their own hand, if their titles are true ? Paul did ; and Paul is the 
pattern (after Christ) for Christian ministers during Gentile times. 
Is he not? Paul wrote to Timothy, and to Titus — not to 

" Rev. and Right Rev. &c— Paul did not put D. D. after the 
names of the Bishops of Ephesus and Crete. D. D. — not good-* 
G. G. better — neither allowed in scripture! 

Happy Paul! "A servant of Jesus Christ"— 

" Paul, an Apostle by the will of God." 
******** 

Second. It may be observed that my testimony of the anointing 
by Mary, is contrary to the opinion of the learned, and at variance 
with the Gospels. Now I am aware of my insufficiency to stand 
an argument upon any ground save literality. My defence is very 
simple. 1. Two Evangelists (Matthew and Mark) have recorded 
the declaration of our Lord, that Mary's performance in Simon's 
house, should be published wherever His gospel was preached. 
Another evangelist (John) has given an account of the work of 
Mary, but omitted part of our Saviour's words. In the gospel 
written by Luke, we can find no account of this sacred anointing, 
except in the seventh chapter. I confess I receive it; and I reason 
thus : it is not possible that a Book of the Gospel of Christ could be 
complete in fundamental truth of His personal Kingship upon the 
throne of David wilhout this Anointing, as by His own blessed de- 
claration that her intention to embalm His sacred person, was ac- 
cepted; for the honour she paid Him was "a good work." Luke 
(who was first a Jewish proselyte; and afterward a Christian) 
could not have omitted such a principal transaction in the life of 
our Blessed Saviour; for it is so illustrious by the positive declara- 
tion that stamped it with publicity, and sealed by His solemn asseve- 
ration, " Veiily, I say unto you," that Luke could not have omitted 
it. I know the seventh chapter is not its proper place. How this 
happened I cannot tell ; but it has happened; and so many thingt 

* The appendages of Rome. 



314 

have been suffered to come on the precious Books of the New Tes- 
tament, that infidels suppose they may blaspheme without blame, 
because they can discover some difference in the statements of the 
four writers of the Glorious Gospel of the Son of God. 

It is a settled point with me, that faith must be in exercise, 
while our eyes are looking upon the letter, or we shall not profit by 
reading. Paul said of the scriptures that they were able to make 
wise unto salvation, through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. 
Formal reading, formal praying and preaching, not mixed with 
faith, but dipping in the muddy channel of self righteousness, and 
hereditary prejudice, never make an increase of right knowledge 
concerning Christ the King of Israel, in any soul: No. 

Self— stand afar off — come not into the hall of judgment: thou art 
sure to condemn Truth: therefore, depart — "Let my religious hours 
alone" — I cannot hear the true Word if thy hoofs are prancing 
about in the place where thoughts are brought forth: so, get away, 
and let me study the Glory of God in the Books of God. 1. It 
shone in Creation. 

2. It was marred by the Nobility of Creation. 

3. It is restored by the humiliation of the Creator ; and this is 
the counsel of God that standeth forever: so I must believe what I 
cannot understand, or else be ignorant of what I ought to know ; 
for my nature is only capable of vanity, as Eve called Abel. Die 
then nature upon the cross, a martyr. Let dust return to dust ; 
and by the humiliation of Divinity, a new creature shall rise by 
the Spirit, and liberty is the element of the new creature, by that 
Spirit, the Lord of creation, which is, the second man, the King of 
Eden. Here establish faith in the scriptures; and then read faith- 
fully, every section for Christ, rejecting every secondary considera- 
tion. Let Mis humiliation be your praise. His exaltation be your 
Joy. His Glory your theme; and then you will understand the 
scriptures, and know the power of God. Old Adam knows nothing; 
but the new man, which is after the image of God, knoweth all things. 

Mary anointed the feet of Messiah; and to her He appeared first 
after His resurrection. Happy type! 

O! that heavenly morn! O! the heaven in His voice — Mary — 
go to my brethren, and say that I am risen ! 



315 

Blessed be God! soon will His counsel be established on earth; 
Eden will have her King forever and ever ! 

In the Glory, Woman's restoration is distinguished as a memento 
of the Counsel of God, " I will make a help meet before* Him (mar- 
gin) ; so Woman is the ordained means of preservation, until the 
revelation of the Mystery of God, "in the fulness of time," and then, 
One appeared in the likeness of infirm flesh, who (without sin) was 
made a curse (Gal. iii. 13) for Eve's appointed seed, the election of 
Grace (see the Covenants) ; and He who was " separate from sin" 
by separation from Adam I., was born of Woman by Decree of 
God, and is the Head, and the GoDhead too, of the Seed elect; so 
Christ was typified by David the son of Jesse; and in the resur- 
rection Life,^s not ashamed to call His redeemed, "the Bride, the 
Lamb's wife." 

" The last shall be first ; and the first shall be last," said the Holy 
One of Israel. Woman was made; and made last of all, and her 
birth place was God's garden; and that garden was located east- 
ward in Eden, or the Lord's Land. Paradise was Woman's native 
home. She polluted it; and her sin caused triumph to the serpent. 
The Lord God immediately interposed. He uttered the Counsel 
of God, that the Serpent's Head should be bruised by the Woman's 
seed; and by this work of destruction, He, the Lord God, i. e. the 
Word of God, would fulfil the original Counsel of God, even Man's 
Dominion upon earth, in Righteousness and Holiness, by Man, even 
Jesus Christ our LoRD.f 

On this wise the Counsel of God, that His Glory shall fill the 
earth, is established by the Adamic reign; and the Counsel of God 
proceeds on a straight line of election ; and from Jesus, the son of 
Joseph (in right of Mary the daughter of Heli,) down to Adam in 
the garden of Eden; and from Abraham to Christ, we must (nor 
can we avoid it) perceive, and own, that Woman is chosen (as to 
being) and man rejected from the fall, until Christ came. So, 
Woman, even "the weaker vessel," is honoured by a vocation of 
purity ("a new thing in the earth"); and the holy Mother of our 
Lord's human person, represents the Rose of Eden. This is a very 

• See Gal. iv. 4. t Rom. fifth chapter. 



316 

mysterious and extraordinary election. The subject is too infi- 
nitely sacred, for poor, frail, sinful mortals to attempt illustrating. 
It remains Almah (i. e. hidden) until "the Mystery of God is 
finished." I must turn from the Vocation of Mother, to the Voca- 
tion of Servant. 

In the holy lifetime of our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ, 
the Lord of glory, there were three years devoted to public service 
of the circumcision, for the truth of God; and the private life, spent 
in perfect innocence, seem to be added to 930* (the days of Adam 
I.), while the three years of public ministrations of Grace, mercy, 
and peace, represent a most lovely miniature of the coming King- 
dom of God, in respect of the good He will bring to Zion, and 

Israel, His elect In those three years, (ah ! three 

years of praise, and Love, and sorrow, all Divine,) while the Lamb 
of God, was in form of man, and the noble was a Servant, Woman 
has a Vocation that exhibits her in the character of an angel, for 
she followed Jesus to minister unto Him, while man accompanied 
by direct command, and as a witness, rather than to serve. 

In this Vocation, Woman has an opportunity of giving joy to 
holy angels in heaven, beyond any male disciple, while Jesus was 
upon earth; and the elect name is Mary, as before. I believe that 
this woman was a perfect beauty: that her personal attractions 
were Satan's advantage: that he beguiled her by the adulation 
of men; and that she left her home for the sake of a young prince 
in Magdala: that when our Lord met her first, she was in distress, 
being falsely accused by hypocrites who lusted after her beauty ; 
that none but Jesus had a right to judge her, "speaking after the 
manner of men;" and that He acquitted her by command of Divi- 
nity: that as man, if he had been no more than man, He could not 
have done it: that He cast out of her seven abominations, or spirits 
of devils: that Magdalene, was added to her name (Miriam) for 
two purposes: 1. to keep in remembrance her days of worldly 
splendour, dissipation, folly: 2. to signify her exaltation by grace. 

There is a very interesting tradition respecting Mary Magda- 
lene, respecting her parting with her lover, whose parents desired 

* Thirty years in obedience, might have been Adam's probation for the 
kingdom ; but 930 in his fall are vanity of vanities. 



317 



this prince to travel. He presented her a box of costly jewels; 
and a box made of alabaster (finest marble) filled with costly 
perfume. After she had seen the Lamb of God that taketh away 
the sin of the world, she stamped all her jewels beneath her feet, 
but saved the alabaster box and perfume 

I believe that Mary's conversion was the means of bringing 
Salvation to her brother and sister, and that Mary introduced the 
Divine Prophet to them in her native city, and thus it happened 
that Martha received Him into her house. 

I have an impression that Martha (a steady notable housewife) 
was more astonished at the manner of our Saviour's treatment of 
Mary, than of the devotion of her sister, which by the thrifty house- 
wife might have been construed idleness, as Mary from home 
had lived in luxury. "Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath 
left me to serve alone ?" &c. 

Much more might be said; but my limits forbid. 

Daughters of Eve in this land of the Great Wing, called a land 
of Liberty, permit me to urge your instant attention to the devo- 
tion paid by Mary, to the Gospel of God. Was it not revealed to 
that fair penitent, that Woman, who was first in transgression, is 
more indebted to the Gospel than man? How true is the senti- 
ment that woman is ennobled according to the advance, or the 
decline of the Gospel of Salvation by Jesus Christ, the king of 
Israel ! How fearful is the prospect opening before us in the nine- 
teenth century, when a Lawless king, whose power is from 
woman's primal seducer, the envious old serpent, which is called 
the Devil, and Satan shall rise from the bottomless pit, to desolate 
the earth by his cruelty and crimes! What shall we do? What 



can we do — even now 
Delusion is sent upon 
but one efficient means 
prayer. Let us beg of 
helpless souls continu- 
precious Saviour, who 
had chosen that good 
ver be taken away from 
watch for our Lord. 




— before the Strong 
our race? I know of 
to use, and that is 
the Father to draw our 
ally, to the feet of that 
said of Mary, that she 
part which should ne- 
her ; and like Mary 



FINIS. 



SUBSCRIBERS' NAMES. 
Washington, D. C. 



John Quincy Adams, 6th Pres't. U. S. A. 
John Tyler, Pres't. U. S. A. in place of 

the lamented Harrison, 8th Pres't. of 

U. S. A. 
D. P. Madison, relict of J. Madison, 4th 

Pres't. U. S. A. 
Levi Woodbury, United States Senate, 



Hannah Morley, 

John C. Rives, Editor of the Globe, 

Sarah C. Polk, 

Charles P. Wilkins, 

J. C. Spencer, Secretary Treas'y. U. S. 

J. Williamson. 



Baltimore* McL 



L. R. Reese, Pres't. Prot. Meth. Con., 
A friend, 

Thomas Atkinson, Minister of the Gos- 
pel of Christ. 
R. Breckinridge, ditto. 



G. W. Wheel right, 
W. W. Wyman, 
Alexander Carter, 
Catharine Bradshaw. 



Philadelphia* 



Stephen H. Tyng, Pastor Ch. Epiphany 
Alexander Henry, President S. S. Union 

Society, Philadelphia. 
Joseph Worrell, 
Joseph Brown, 
James Mitchell, 
Osman Reed, 
G. Washington Reed, 
Charles Magarge, 
H. Hastings Weld, 
Charles Chauncey, 
Joseph R. Chandler, U. S. Gazette. 
C. Readell, 

Richard Newton, Pastor St. Paul's Ch. 
John Neil!, 
G. W. Cannon, 

W. Lord, Minister of the Gospel. 
William Ramsey, ditto. 
J. J. Devereux, Commissioner for Mass. 
Charles Everett, 
Josiah Quimby, 
Stephen D. Steele, 
Elizabeth Hubicam, 
Elizabeth Ann Reed, 
Lydia R. Bailey, 
J. Jones, 
Ann Johnston, 
Martha A. Meyer, 

A friend to 



Elizabeth D. Read, 

Elizabeth Howell, 

Margaret la Perit, 

Matitda Gaul, 

Harriet Coleman, 

Eleanor Kester, 

Ellen M. Hailey, 

Achsah G. Derr, 

G. Boyd, Pastor of St. John's Ch., N. L. 

J. K. Mitchell, Physician. 

K. Earp, 

Samuel M'Clellan, Physician. 

H. M. Zollicoffer, 

G. W. Fair, 

Daniel M'Curdy, 

J. W. Steel, 

A. W. Albright, 

S. Badger, 

E. S. Burd, 

Timothy Banger, 

William R. Bailev, 

C. Foster, 

Jasper Harding, Philadelphia Inquirer 

& National Gazette. 
Arthur Thacher, 

Lewis C. Levin, Philadelphia Sun. 
Andrew W. M'Clasky, 
Thomas Nicholson? 
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